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Show Shoemakers' Wax a Liquid. It is not always possible to draw a very clear line of demarcation between be-tween 'a liquid and a solid. Shoemaker's Shoemak-er's wax. which Is so brittle that the fragmentation obtained when a sheet of it is hit by a bullet resembles that In the case of the very brittle metal antimony, is actually a liquid. To show this place leaden bullets upon a sheet of shoemaker's wax and then support the whole upon corks. At the end of a month the corks will be found floating upon the sheet of wax instead of beneath It and the bullets will be at the bottom as in a liquid. |