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Show UTAH DRY ICE ADDS INDUSTRY The gas that puts the fizz in your strawberry soda, now hardens your golf bail, brings your radio music, preserves your fruits and vegetables when shipped, controls the temperature tempera-ture in commercial bakeries, and may embalm your body. Formation of a carbon dioxide ice corporation has brought forth interesting inter-esting facts concerning the use of carbon dioxide gas. The principal manufacturing activities of the corporation cor-poration will be that of "dry ice," as solidified carbon dioxide is popularly known. The organization, headed by L. M. Appel, has a proven tract of land near Clayton, N. M., and had adddi-tional adddi-tional options. A producing well 983 feet deep already shows a hight content con-tent of carbon dioxide. Other potential poten-tial carbon dioxide ice fields have been discovered near Walden, Colo., and Price, Utah. The Fulton Petroleum Petrol-eum company is now operating ice wells at Price. The solidified carbon dioxide is especially es-pecially desirable where an even refrigeration re-frigeration temperature is desired. It evaporates slowly, and remains in lump form several days. It disappears disap-pears into the atmosphere when evaporating eva-porating and leaves no annoying pools of water to drip on fruit or vegetables, or to have to be disposed of before refilling the refrigerator chamber. The dry ice, in addition to its use in refrigeration, is being employed to harden golf balls, as a substitute for liquid air in the radio industry, a substance in fumigating mixtures, and an aid in embalming. Mining News. |