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  2. SCIENCE NOTES. W. G. P.

    One of the marvels accomplished by the modern chemist is to get a solution of platinum in cold water. This sounds strange when we remember that platinum is unacted on by ...

    Article : 513 words
  3. THE MARCH REVIEWS. SOME MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.

    Among the papers on general subjects in the Reviews by this mall is one by Sir Oliver Lodge in the "Fortnightly" on the scientific attitude to marvels, in which he discusses a ...

    Article : 834 words
  4. NITRATES FROM AIR.

    The problem of obtaining nitrates for manure by causing atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen to combine has several times been referred to in these notes. There seems no doubt ...

    Article : 251 words
  5. BRITISH POLITICS.

    There are at least 16 different contributions in the three reviews this month dealing with current politics and points in the situation since the election—the Labour party, the ...

    Article : 360 words
  6. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS DIRECTORY.

    Messrs. C. Mitchell and Co.'s "Newspaper Press Directory" is now in its sixties, and it grows the stronger as the years pass by. The issue for 1906 is better in many ways than ...

    Article : 348 words
  7. SOME CURIOUS ANIMALS.

    It is said that every dog has his day. Biology confirms the proverb, and extends it to animals in general. But many animals, and plants also, had their day long ago, and died ...

    Article : 697 words
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  9. THE WORLD'S COAL DEPOSITS.

    The well-known journal "Stahi and Eisen" has recently published some figures, since quoted by "Engineering," bearing upon this question. A more optimistic view is taken ...

    Article : 344 words
  10. FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

    Dr. Dillon's usual article in the "Contemporary" on foreign affairs brings a good deal of light to bear on the attitude of Germany of late. He reviews the broad facts that led ...

    Article : 999 words
  11. FOR SHEARERS AND SHED HANDS.

    Sir,—As the Australian Workers' Union intends shortly to appeal to the Federal Arbitration Court, allow me to point out that to prevent the bushworker from sinking to the ...

    Article : 511 words
  12. ARSENIC AS FOOD AND POISON.

    Although the metal arsenic is inactive, its oxides and most of its salts are powerful poisons. Arsenic compounds that are themselves inactive, however, often undergo a ...

    Article : 301 words
  13. DANGEROUS DUSTS.

    If the air in a cylinder is made dusty with lycopodium powder, and rapidly compressed, as by a piston, the powder explodes with a flash. This little laboratory experiment, used ...

    Article : 406 words
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