The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-16
WHAT is SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DIssoLvEs IN WATER.
And II Bar Of Gold Be Placed Upon a
Bar Of Lead Each In Time Will Alb
sorh Particles of the Other--Solid
Matter a Mass of WhirIing Atoms.

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Bar Of Lead Each In Time Will Alb
sorb Particles of the Other---Solid
| Matter Mass of WhirIins Atoms.
What is soluble? Sugar In water?
That's easy, although you have 10 be
born in Kentucky to perform the trick
in the mint julep trade.
Is glass soluble in water? offhand
we say no. We are wrong. 1t is You
can try 1t yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass, glass that holds eight ounces,
grind 1t up TO powder and pour the
powder into another glass full Of water
and stir it up. Then analyze II, or, If
this is above you, take 1t around the
lcorner to a man who can, and he will
tell you, and with truth, that the wa
tier IN that glass had actually dissolved
8 per cent Of the glass powder.
Glass is soluble, nearly as soluble as
bichloride of mercury.
Everything is soluble in water.
Furthermore, everything in the uni
verse is soluble In everything else in
the universe. That is what they are
telling us now. and the men who tell
us can perform an astonishing expert
ment right before your eyes to make
you more than half believe them.
They take bar Of gold and bar Of
lead. They lay one bar on top of the
other. Then they sit around and smoke
cigars and wait, say year. Then they
take the two bars and analyze them
chemically. In the gold bar they find
lead, In the lead bar they find gold.
Gold and lead are soluble In each other.
II you haven't time to wait year to
find out. the trick can be performed In
much shorter time. All that has TO be
done is to raise the temperature of the
two bars TO very ordinary heat-say
800 or 400 degrees f. With this added
heat the same results are reached over
night. Traces of gold are found all the
way through the lead bar and vice
versa.
The theory is that all substances.
whether gold or butter or leather, are
really composed OF the smallest kind
OF small particles-about the size of the
particles making up the tail Of the late
lamented comet, which We're described
as the elemental essence of nothing
ness. These particles, which are rs
much bigger than an atom as moul-
tain compared to mouse. are in mo
ton. revolving round each other faster
than thought. much the same as the
planets reyolve round the sun.
| IL our microscopes were big enough a
| chunk of gold would appear to our
| eyes much the same as a 6y hopper
full of iiies dhe kind of hoppers they
keep In the cheese department OF a
country grocery store In August. The
particles are bnzzing and jumping
| much the same as these flies.
When a bar OF gold comes IN contact
with bar of lead their respective re-
volving buzzing particles get together
and get acquainted. They go explor-
ing and are lost, and before long, in
| stead of having bar OF pure lead and
bar OF pure gold we have two bars
of alleged metals.
This discovery has upset all sorts of
scientific calculations. If everything is
soluble in everything else-and scien-
lists can go on duplicating the gold
lead example without end-how can
anything exist in pure state? 1t can't
Chemists dispense chemicals under
the label &c. p" or chemically pure"
but IL DR.. Wiley got after them on
the strict letter Of the new theory he
would send them all to Jail, because the
chances are that all alleged pure chem
icals have absorbed little of every
thing they came in contact with in
the process OF their manufacture.
Analytical chemists of this day have
to take into account the amount of
glass any given solution contains,
when they are testing that solution in
test tube. Otherwise their results
wouldn't count for anything.
This discovery suggests an explana-
ton Of that mysterious element In out
door life, scent. How can a hound
trace his quarry? Everything a man
touches dissolves little OF him. When
his foot falls on the ground he leaves
a trace Of himself. In warm weather
or In wet weather he leaves bigger
trace than In cold or dry weather A
hound follows a damp trail. Usually
his sense OF smell is not acute enough
TO follow a dry trail.
The suggestion that n fugitive pur-
sued by a bloodhound actually dis
solves a few particles OF himself every
time his foot touches the ground, just
as though be were lump OF sugar in
water. sounds fanciful. but 1t is APP
pearing more and more reasonable In
the light of recent researches.-F. |.
Andaraon In ChicaCo Racord- Iat.a Ia