New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 18

BECONENEW FORCE Scintists Hope to Rival Elec- tricity in Value Baltimore, Md., Nov. 23 (®— Revolutionary discoveries bearing on the scientific law of capillarity, recently achieved in the chemistry laboratery of Johns Hopkins univer- sity, have opened the way, in the opinien of some authorities, toward increased control over phenomena destined to rival electricity in their cffect on civilization. Upsetting previously accepted con- cepts of capillarity, the very name st which is unfamiliar to most per- ons, although their lives and many ndustries depend upon it, Drs. J. C. W. Frazer and Walter A. Patrick, rofessors of chemistry, have found hat its force is many times greater han has been thought. This discovery, based on careful nd extensive work of Dr. Patrick m adsorption, is only a partial re- sult—a “preliminary conclusion”— in a broad program of research by Dr, Patrick, which has been in pro- sress for some years and will not be completed for many years to come. 1t is so mew that the habitually and deliberately cautious world of Located at New Haven, on the Waterfront, this $11,500,000 Home of the Connecticut Coke Company Stands Today on what, in August, 1927, was Nothing but Waste Land. From this Modern Plant Comes the Ef- ficient Fuel Being Used in Thousands of Heating Plants KOPPERS CONNECTICUT COKE science has not had time to obtain the customary ‘confirmations” from other investigatiors which it de- manda. ‘The evidence, however, is regard- ed as convincing by Dr. Joseph S. Ames, noted physcist and provost of the university. Conceding that the otion may appear fantastic, he pre- dicts that, through applications yet undreamed, which will be made pos- sible by increased understanding, capillarity and the associated phe- nomenon of adsorption will be recognized in the next decade or two as comparable in value to elec- tricity. Adsorption is the force which causes the molecules of water and other substances in solution in the form of gas or vapor to condense on a plane surface and adhere to it} as a layer of liquid. To establish the validity of their new theory about capillaries, be- cause of the adsorptive action of the | walls of these minute pores, Drs.} Frazer and Patrick had to prove that such films of liquid never ex- ceed the thickness of a single mole- cule, about four-billionths of an inch. Capillary action was first men- tioned by Leonard da Vinci in the | fifteenth century, when he observed | that, if a glass tube having an ex- | ceptionally fine bore, no larger than | a hair, was inserted in water, the | level of the liquid inside would rise | above the outside level. Systematic scientific investigation of this phe- nomenon, however, did not hel!inl until the opening of the eightcenth | Citizen’s Coal Co. Phone 2798 century, - Since then it has been learned that plants.and animals are honey- combed with innuumerable fine pores and veins. known as paillary vessels, which function in the move- ment of the sap, blood and other secretions through all parts of the organisms, distributing the essential elements which sustain life and car- rying away the waste. It also has been known for many years that charcoal, silica ge! and other substances were _similarly equipped with fine capillaries and would draw moisture out of the air. Not uatil the World War, however, did the investigation of the forces involved receive any decided stim- ulus. This came through the discovery made by Dr. Patrick while working on'the problem of devising means for protecting soldiers against poi- sonous gases and vapors that the deadly elements could be removed by placing such porous material in the cannisters ot gas masks through which the air was drawn for breath- ing. Charcoal made from peach Pits | (nited States is three miles, accord- | cocoanut shells and similar sub- stances was used for that purpose. In the meantime Dr. Patrick devel- oped an economical method for niaking silica gel by a suitable treat- ment of water glags, thus producing a practically indestructible system of extremely minute. invisible capil- laries capable of drawing unexpect- edly large quantities of vapor par- ticles from the air and holding them in a liquid state until driven THE omy. out with heat. This and similar materials have come since into wide and rapidly expanding use in refrigeration; for the drying of air, especially the blast in the manufacture of pig iron; in the refining of petroleum pro- ducts, such as gasoline and kero- sene, and for the recovery of many valuable chemicals out of hitherto wasted industrial gases and vapors. The fields of usefulness which le ahead remain to be explored In the light of the mnew knowledge of capillarity and adsorption. “The importance of this new knowledge may perhaps be judged.” Dr. Frazer asserts, “when it is stated that not only will many in- dustries and processes be revolution- ized by the use of these methods, but the movements of liquids in soils, plants and animals be better understood.” Average U. 8. Airport Three Miles From City Washington, Nov. 23.—UP—The average distance of airports from the business centers of cities in the ing to compilation of the aeronautics branch of the department of com- merce. 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