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Show vCIILOIlL'HIS SOLVED DY Cllffl Elements Divided After Mivny Years of ' Experiment L CHICAGO, Aug. 1 By A- T Two chemical atemenat hitherto considered Indivisible liar bee separated by Irf W illiam Har-- Har-- klna, profeaaop cf physical chero la-try la-try at the I nlvaralty of Chicago, Whoa experiments In this field ara j axpected to revolutionise tha ehm-i ehm-i teal h -ory of a century. r - I r. iarklna explained how he if 'tried to separata chlorine, tha frn,?n yollow gas used by tha I Germans when they first lntro-I lntro-I ducad chemical warfare. Chlorine haa long been considered ona of tha ninety odd elements. Ilk rar-' rar-' Hon. oxygen and hydrogen, which hav defied all attempts at divl-alon. divl-alon. Thee o -called element ara preaent In tha aarth aneV In the un. "Kor flaw year wa worked," ha said. "Ve triad all aorta of appar- gtus and used mora than a ton of V hdrocarboa chloride before wa ' auoceeded. Tha gaa waa diffused through tha stoma of church war-dan war-dan ptpea. These plpea are mada of white clay and have atom between II and 14 Inchaa long. Tha lighter parte of tha gas passed outward through tha sterna. Tha heavier part a remained, and thua wa disco dis-co re red that our ao -called element, chlorine, could ba separated and other time-honored theory had surrendered. sur-rendered. Virtually all physicist and c hem lata in tha United Stales ha re accept ed tha raeulta." Dr. Hark Ins than . demonstrated that mercury, alaa considered a fundamental aubataaca, can ba . broken up. Like tha chlorine twJna tha parte of mercury look alike but ara .vastly different In weight, ha ax plained. Dr. Harklna la performing perform-ing aim liar expert naeate with sine and cadmium to aa If they too are wtixturee Instead of elements. Theea ex pari men ta Indicate, than, that there probably la only ona fundamental alament Instead of tha ninety wa hava bean pinning our faith on sM theae years, Pr ' Harklna aald. That basic clamant I hydrogen, snd. according to my theory. ! the so-called elements ara compoundg of helium or helium with hydrogen. But since helium Itaelf Is built up from hydrogen, then all tha element ara intra torn lc rurr pQMnds of hydrogen." |