Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-14 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

FREAKS and ODDITIES IN N I-N SCIENCE SCIENCE NEWSMen NEWS NEWS- Men of the old stone age hod places where they U gathered to make tools because of unusual abundance of workable stone or other favorable circumstances Discovery of of such sucha a stone age factory In southern France 1 is announced by the Smithsonian Institution The site was found by J J. J Townsend Russell collaborating of the Smithsonian staff Tramping through a forest forest forest for for- est in the foothills of the French Pyrenees he no noticed noticed noticed no- no worked man-worked flakes of ot flint along a rain rain- washed cart track Subsequent exploratory digging digging digging dig dig- ging or soundings revealed re a very extensive surface sur stir face quarry under two or three feet of surface soil soU that has piled plIed up through the ages since the old- old time hunters squatted here to cl chip p flint flin tools and weapons a a 0 sy Synthetic resins substances s such ch as as ar are sold as U artificial amber can now be made from pe pe- The lighter highly unsaturated distillates distillates distillates distil distil- lates of ot petroleum are used They are hooked together together to together to- to gether chemically polymerized the theL chemist calls it in the presence of a catalyst or match making agent that brings about such unions without It Itself Itself It- It self becoming permanently involved The production production production tion of synthetic resins Is one of the newer of chemistry One of the known best-known of these substances s is made by combining phenol or carbolic carbolic car car- bolic boUc acid with formaldehyde e. e Another Is made of urea which In turn can cun b be made out of air a a H Stones no less Jess than men animals and plants U are attacked by germs And these bacterial insects can cause serious damage to building ma ma- Primarily this bacterial disintegration of stone is beneficial for it is la one of ot the things that breaks down solid rock into soil fit for farms and forests But on the works of otman man the bacteria some of them the identical ones that are helpful in the soil often work havoc