| Show EXPLAINS ACTIONS view views of prof verrill on the recent eruption bome of the phenomena attending the destruction oi of st pierre have been difficult to explain especially the sheet c flamo that scents to bare baye accompanied or closely followed the violent explosion of gaa gas prof verrill of yale states view to be that the heat beat Is sufficient clent to cause thu dissociation of hydrogen drosen hy and oxygen from water coming suddenly into contact with tho the lava in the crater and that in tho the case of sea water chloride would be dissociated from sodium these gases suddenly ejected with great violence and exploding in the air above tho the crater would produce the effects manifested on an so great a at t martinique i iho he people were killed by the audr ud den don explosion of at vast volume of by hydrogen drogen and oxygen and this accounts for the burning of flesh and clothes ae as arall as of buildings and of vessels tit ir the roadstead the chlorine chor lne c witti some of the hydrogen would pro produce due hydrochloric acid which Is poisonous and suffocating and would quickly kill all those not destroyed b the first ex 11 |
