Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-01 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

F FREAKS REA Ii Sand and 0 ODDITIES D D I TIE S SI I IN N S SCIENCE C 1 E NeE NEW NEWS NEWS- SHow S- S How far light will penetrate into water and how far it will go through living tissue is being beIng be be- be ing studied at the Smithsonian institution Among the curious facts developed is the wide difference In penetrating DOwer cower of two wavelength bands of or light that are arc next door neighbors in the spec spec- trum tx The visible light rays of or longest wavelength at the extreme red end of the spectrum will pass through nearly a foot of or water with a loss of half their energy Yet radiations in the thc infra red with wavelengths only a little greater have a penetrating ing power in water only about one thousandth ten-thousandth as great In the practical realm this signifies that most of the radiation from from the dull red lamps frequently frequently fre fre- fre- fre used for therapeutic purposes merely warms the surface and arid does not penetrate into the flesh at all I 0 o e U HOne J One of ot the many industries temporarily ill from overproduction is that which taps the stores of at pc petroleum laid down in the earth by the sunshine of at millions of at years ears ago Surplus of oil products is not entirely due to the drilling of too many wells the efficiency of or power production from oil aU has increased In the last decade automotive automotive auto auto- motive power obtained from a gallon of at crude oil has tripled This per cent increase in effIciency efficiency ef ef- ef has been secured by increasing the efficIency ef el- ef- ef of the automobile engine producing antiknock antiknock anti anti- knock gasoline and making more gallons of gasoline gasoline gas gas- oline out of at a barrel of crude oil aU