The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-02-15
UNTOLD WEALTH AWAITS
PRODUCER OF TELLURIUM
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\COuClNuSu IOm rage
large deposits of the heretofore use
less metal.
Two years of after-war research by
the tellurium silenium committee OF
the National Research Council, head
ed by DR.. Lenher, covering intensive
detailed work of dozens CT scientists
all over the country in an effort to
utilize these metals, were related by
DR.. Lenher today.
The new process, he said, was com.
parativeiy simple, as regards execu-
ton One part by weight of diethyl
telluride, a chemical mixture of this
WORTHLESS" metal with carbon COM
pounds, is mixed with $1,000 parts OF
gasoline. This mixture when explod-
ed after vaporization, in the cylinder
heads of internal combustion engines
such as automobile, airplane and
marine engines, affects the chemical
and physical actions so that the en-
CINE under any circumstances Of load
or stress will not "knock" and will
give a possible efficiency of 81 pei
cent, whereas 70 per cent is the high
est possible efficiency gained through
IhiS VOC VI PASooAS SAouSo Va 6ooOAnc.
Gasoline mileage will be- doubled
using this process. The speed and
power of internal combustion engines
will be boosted 80 per cent.
This discovery is the result of two
widely different lines-the Research
Council in an attempt to find uses for
telluride and silenium tuseless"
metals found with gold. and chemists
attempting to find the "why' OF
knocking in automobile engines.
Automobile engines don't knock at
night, even on the steepest of hills,
the chemists discovered. So they
mixed water vapor with the gasoline
vapor they fed gasoline engines, and
they found it eliminated the "knock''
and added power. But the dificultie
Of making this discovery applicable
to motor cars prevented practically.
The reason Of the "knock" wasn't
found, but they did find out how to
eliminate it. =
Then they experimental with other
gases mixed with the gasoline fed
their engines. They tired sileniunl
oxycloride, discovery ot DR., Len
her in 1920, when he was trying to
find o practical use for silenium. This
compound was even more efficient
than water vapor in eliminating the
"knock" and adding power. Then
they tried diethyl telluride, and found
it most Efficient Of all,-in fact, it
added so much power that ordinary
gasoline engines, built to stand or
d;n ar,, e4ro;r, ~ 10 l;,,o oyr1-a.;o
can't stand the strain, and shake
themselves to pieces in operation.
II a sufficient quantity of the me-
tai is discovered, the discovery will
revolutislize the gasoline-propelled
world, DIR. Lenher said. Efficiency
of everything that runs by "internal
combustion" will be doubled.
Every gear ratio will have to be
changed to accommodate the new
power, he said, and q readjustment or
rebuilding of every automobile. air.
plane and marine engine will be nee
essary to make possible the use of
the new fuel. ,.... -
So the worlds waiting for~enougl
tellurium. -
For the information of seekers, TEL
lurium is heavy, silver or silver.
black, metal always found in its ma,
tive or metallic state, or as an alloy
of gold. It was discovered in 1872
in Telluride, Pennsylvania, Bohemia
in connection with the electrolytie
process of separating gold from the
baser metals.
+ Tellurium has also been found in
connection with gold, copper and leat
deposits in Australia and in Cripple
Creek and Telluride, Colorado.