Connecticut western news., 1913-06-12
WHAT $ SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
 Say the Scientists. .
GLASS, DlSSOLVES IN WATER
And if Bar of Gold Be Placed Upon Bar of Lead Each In Time Will Ab- sorb Particles of the Other-Solid Matter a Mass of Whirling Atoms.

Bar of Lead Each In Time Will Ab-
 sorb Particles of the Other-Solid
 Matter a Mass of Whirlins Atoms.
 What is soluble7 Sugar in waterf 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? Ofrhand 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 powder and pour the powder into another glass full of water and stir It up. Then analyze 1t, or, If this is above you, take 1t around the corner to man who can, and he will tell you, and with truth, that the wa ter in that glass had actually dissolved 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
 
 us can perform an astonishing expert ment right before your eyes to make you more than half believe them.
 They take a 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 a year. Then they take the two bars and analyZe them chemically. In the gold bar they find lead. Tn the lead bar they find gold. Gold and lead 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 a very ordinary heat-say 300 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 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 mouse, are in mo ton, revolving round each other faster than thought, much the same as the planets revolve round the sun.
 If our microscopes were big enough a chunk of gold would appear to our eyes much the same as fly hopper full of flies (the kind of hoppers they keep in the cheese department of a country grocery store in August). The particles are buzzing and jumping much the same as these flies.
 When 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 a bar of pure gold we have two bars of alloyed 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? It can't Chemists dispense chemicals under the label 70. F." or chemically pure 2. but if pr. 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 a little of every thing they came ip 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 quarryf 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 a bigger trace than in cold or dry weather. hound follows damp trail. Usually his sense of smell is not acute enough to follow a dry trail.
 The suggestion that a fugitive pur sued by a bloodhound actually dis solves few particles of himself every time his foot touches the ground, just as though he were lump of sugar in water. sounds fanciful, but 1t Is ap- bearing more and more reasonable In the light of recent researches.-F. | Anderson In Chicago Record Herald.