Show it atmosphere AS A A LIQUID it can be kept ip bottles bottle like any amr other fluid the royal institution has just given a interesting demonstration of splendid results that may be ach achieved ieva if the highest skill in investigation ie be combined with an adequate command comm of means says the london standard the liquefaction of air regarded as a mere feat of mechanical ingenuity ity would command the admiration even of those who value knowledge mainly for its use in what they call practical life but of infinitely higher highe value in the esteem of the true student are the inferences suggested it would be premature to say the conclusions attained as a necessary incident in bringing about this wonderful change of form it has of course long been assumed in theory that the differences between solids liquids anc and gases are matters of temperature and pressure platinum can exist as a fine vapor va por where there is heat enough to expand its atoms and conversely hydrogen might be kept in hard pellets if only it were possible to get chatte that tenuous nu e lenient element a sufficient number of degrees below freezing point but then the philosophers despa despaired ireI of creating or rather maintaining on OIL this globe of ours either sufficiently ardent heat or sufficiently deadening cold the speculatively possible was the practically impossible enough has been done already to dissipate despair some time ago we were told that oxygen had been reduced to palpable form that human eyes had positively seen the vital gw gas at the bottom of the vessel that was a triumph indeed but prof dewar in alliance with the goldsmiths Goldsmit hV company has pushed the area of conquest further still the mixed gases of the atmosphere have been reduced to the liquid state not as aa a mere fugitive spirit that evaporates and disappears as soon as it is fixed in bounds but as a mere liquid like any other liquid that can be kept in a bulb and hung up in a heated room without any very rapid loss of its volume |