Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-22
WHAT is SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DISSOLvES IN WATER.

And II Bar Of Gold Be Placed Upon =
Bar Of Lead Each In Time viii Alb
sorb Particles of the other-Solid
Matter a Mass Of WhlrIins Atoms.
What is soluble? Sugar In water2
That's easy, although you have to be
born In Kentucky to perform the trick
in the mint julep trade.
Is glass soluble In water7 Orhand
we say no, We are wrong, It is, You
can try II yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass, a glass that holds eight ounces,
grind It up to powder and pour the
powder into another glass full Of water
and stir II up. Then analyze II, or, II
this is above you, take It around the
corner to man who can, and he will
tell you, aAd with truth, that the wa
ter In that glass had actually dissolved
3 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 op top Of the
other. Then they sit around and smoke
cigars and wait, sny year Then they
take the two bars and analyze them
chemically. In the gold bar they flnd
lead. In the lead bar they find gold,
Gold and lend are soluble In each other.
If 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
300 or 400 degrees II. with this added
heat the same results are reached over.
night Traces Of gold are found ali 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 partlcles-about the size of the
particles making up the tail Of the late
lamented comet, which were described
rs the elemental essence of nothing
ness. These particles, which are as
much bigger than an atom as a noun
tain compared to n mouse, are in mo-
tlOn. revolving round each other faster
than thought much the same as the
planets revOlvc round the sun.
II our microscopes were big enough n
chunk Of gold would appear to our
eyes much the same as fly hopper
full Of flies dhc kind of hoppcrs they
keep in the cheese department OF II
country grocery store in August. The
particles are buzzlng aud jumping
much the same as these flies.
When a bar Of gold comes in contact
with bar Of lead their respective re.
volylng buzzlng particles get together
and get acquainted. They 80 cxplor.
Ing and are lost. and before long, in
stend Of having n bar Of pure lead and
a bar Of pure gold we have two bars
Of aloycd metals
This discovery has upset all sorts of
scientific calculations II everything Is
soluble In everything clse-0nd sclen-
fists can 90 on duplicating the gold.
lead example without cnd-how can
anything exist In Il pure state2 II can't.
Chemists dispense chemicals under
the label &C. f." or "chcmlcally pure"
but If DR. Wiley got after them on
the strict letter Of the new theory no
would send them all to Jail, because the
chances are that all alleged pure chem.
icnls 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
glhSS 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 explnna.
tion Of that mysterious element In out.
door life. scent How can n hound
trace his quarryl Everything a man
touches dlssolyes 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 a bigger
trace than In cold or dry weather A
hound follows damp trail Usually
his sense Of smell ls not acute enough
TO follow dry trail
The suggestion that a fugitive pur.
sued by bloodhound nctually dis.
solves few particles Of himself every
time his foot touches the ground, Just
ms though he were n lump of sugar In
water, sounds fancifuI but It Is ap.
pearlng more and more reasonable In
the light NJ recent rcsearchcs.-F l.
Anderson In Chicago Record. Herald.
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