Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-04-11
WHAT'S SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DlSSOLvES IN WATER.

And if a Bar of Gold Be Placed Upon a
Bar of Lead Each In Time Will Alb
sorb Particles of the Other-Solid
Matter a Mass of WhirIng Atoms.
What is soluble? Sugar in water?
That's easy, although you have to be
born in Kentucky to perform the trick
in the mint julep trade.
Is glass soluble in water? Onhand
we say no. We are wrong. 1t is. You
can try it yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass, a glass that holds eight ounces,
grind it up to a powder and pour the
powder into another glass full Of water
and stir it up Then analyze it, or, if
+ this is above you, take it around the
corner to a man who can, and he will
tell you, and with truth, that the wa
ter in that glass had actually dissolved
IS 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 or the
other Then they sit around and smoke
take the two bars and analyze them
chemically. In the gold bar they find
lead. In the lead bar they And gold.
Gold aud lead are soluble in each other.
If you haven't time to wait year to
find out, the trick can be performed In
done is to raise the temperature of the
two bars to very ordinary heat-say
BOO 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
1amented comet, which were described
as the elemental essence of nothing
ness. These particles, which are as
much bigger than an atom as a noun
tain compared to a mouse, are in mo-
ton, revolving round each other faster
than thought much the same as the
planets reVolye round the sun.
If our microscopes were big enough a
chunk of gold would appear to our
eyes much the same as d fly hopper
full of flies Cthe kind of hoppers they
keep in the cheese department Of q
country grocery store In August. The
particles are buzzing and jumping
much the same as these flies.
When n bar of gold comes in contact
with bar Of lead their respective re-
VolVing buZZing particles get together
ami -et acquainted They go explor
ing and are lost, and before long, in
stead Of having bar of pure lead ant
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
fists can go on duplicating the gold
lead example without end-hOw car
anything exist in pure state? It can't
Chemists dispense chemicals unde
the label &C. T." or chemically pure,
but if a DR. Wiley got after them OF
the strict letter of the new theory ht
would send them all to Jail, because thu
chances are that I'LL alleged pure chem
icals have absorbed a little of every
thing they came in contact with il
= the process Of their manufacture.
Analytical chemists of this day have
to lake into ACCOUNT The amount o
glass any given solution contains
when they are testing that solution il
test tube. Otherwise their results
wouldn't count for anything.
This discovery suggests an explana
ton of that mysterious element in out