Show Solid SoUd Water Solid SoUd water must not nol be confused t t with ice It is something utterly a different says a writer in to London Tit-Bits Tit Magazine Scientists at the Armour Institute of Technology plied phed ap ape applied pressures as high as pounds per square inch to water and although we were taught at nt school that water is incompressible it not only changed ch to half its volume volume but became f a solid with a melting point of degrees Fahrenheit Under t tsuch such pressure hydrogen gas can be made to pass through the walls of a steel container for the steel is badly affected and its tensile strength reduced by half Incident Incident- Incidentally Incidentally ally anyone can cnn obtain a pressure of pounds per square inch at home by pressing a needle point pont against glass until the needle snaps sn |