Aluminium as a voltac element

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1881
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 111
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(81)90423-3

✦ Synopsis

Frozen Dynamite.--Captain George Lebon recommends the use vf an increased quantity of fulminate in dynamite cartridges, so that they can be readily exploded when frozen, thus obviating the necessity and consequent danger of melting them in cold weather. He mentions numerous experiments, at temperatures of twenty degrees below zero (--4°F.), in which charges were exploded without difficulty or failure.--Ann, des Pants et Chauss.

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Wormwood as an Iasectifuge.--M. Poyrot having observed that the immense tracts of wormwood, upon the Amebean plains, arc free from insects of every description, is experimenting with the plant as a preventive of phylloxera. He finds no difficulty in cultivating She wormwoed, and he proposes to mix the stalks with manure, or simply bury them in the ground in the neighborhood of the vines.