Show Turning OIL WELLS Into CREAMERIES S a competitor r With the cow the farm pump AS A has b been n forted forced or d to yield to theWl well derrick derrick derrick der der- rick a as a substitute for the churn For Fol butter can b be made from p petroleum tro un This artificial artificial arti arti- rii- rii petroleum butter as yet however d does s not poss possess ss the desirable new grass graes taste tast it is savors vors more mote of the flav flavor r of axle gr grease as Dr Gustave Egloff a w well n known wn chemist who has been experimenting with it does not recommend recommend recommend mend it for the table or even eVeri e for a automobile t luncheons by the wayside But the d day y will n dawn it is predicted when the oil refinery will compete with the ct creamery mery How Haw the i science of chemistry s solved lv the problem lem lcm of making butter from the cots coil oil cow Is described as follows by John Harrington Walker writing in Popular r Science Monthly P PetroleUm um is a highly complex liquid composed d chiefly of hydrogen and C carton carbon in chemical com com- H Hence nce chemists call petroleum a hydrocarbon hydrocarbon hydrocarbon hydro carbon Many of our foods including butter are also aho combinations of f hydrogen n and carbon carbon but but different You can Zan an build with brick hundreds hundred of 0 houses houes that bear no architectural t resemblance to toone toone toone one another you you can build up from hydrogen gen and c carbon atoms thousands of f es as different different different differ differ- ent as s coalt tar coal r dyes dye and potatoes So this problem of m making good tood butt butter l out of ofa a a. a vile oil that oozes from th the earth arth resolves s itself into a rearrangement of its atoms That is not an easy problem tn for petroleum is IB composed of some 30 different chemical compounds classed as hydro hydro-carboni and is impregnated d betides besides with soluble nitrogen and sulphur We have tn many y hydro-carbons hydro that are aro go good gold d to eat eat such 8 as the starch which h is an Important coh of wheat heat and md corn and potatoes potatoe Butter Is a Solid MUd tat fat at consisting o oi of a group of ofa a acids Of these acids adds the tM principal on one ona is i. called butyric acid It is made by agitating or r beating beading beating beat beat- ing milk milk- so ao o as to break up the globules of ot fat and to bring them into a solid mass male The Th problem lem lam of f the chemist is b to change th the hydro carbon of petroleum into the pleasing acid add of good creamery cream tream ery cry butter Hydro-carbons Hydro consist of hydrogen and arid cat car bon ion The first step in the transformation IB is to chlorinate the petroleum This ia is donG done by forcing forcing forc forc- ing chlorine into it by an electric current which is turned on on while it Is confined in a closed d mik ing vessel The chlorine combines with atoms of hydrogen and hd produces S h hydrochloric acid and nd chlorides of the hydro Next this mixture is boiled with caustic soda a chemi chemical al resulting from th the union of hydrogen and B soda da and t technically known as a hydrate of 01 that element Chlorine reacts with soda and forms a chloride of soda oda which is common salt Thus W we have our derrick derrick brand of butter literally literally liter Uter- ally salted in the making I There is ig present in the th mixture also a com cant of the carb carbon n the hydrogen n and the oxygen which have all aU been brought Into new neon relations They constitute a form of alcohol B By intricate chemical processes more oxygen Is added added add add- ed edt to so that the compound i is changed into a group of ot ac acids ds which n may y be as assimilated by the human w J system exactly the same as are those fatty tatty acids adds which we call butter Dr Egloff's early experiments were madea made teeth a light-colored light oil fuel-oil of the kind used under tha boilers of o ocean ean liners This experimental 1 had the proper yellow tint but owing to the fact tut th that t many matty things had not been eliminated limin t d front from it it h had d a taste that was far from front p palatable By bleaching and it is possible t to obtain I a bland colorless and tasteless petroleum Su a prod product ct i is now 1 W sold by every drug store as alt an tm int internal lubricant When the chemist starts with V Voil a bright pure UN oil il he lie can undoubtedly produce a most edible substitute sub sub- J for far butt butter r. r c. c |