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Show EARTH GRADUALLY DRYING UP Scientific Theory That Water Is Passing Into the Upper Air as Hydrogen, Hy-drogen, Never to Return. When water Is decomposed by radium radi-um or by ultra-violet rays It produces hydrogen and peroxide of hydrogen, and It does not form oxygen. Electrolytic Elec-trolytic decomposition forms oxygen. A German Investigator bases a new theory relating to the drying of the earth on the fact that one form of decomposition produces oxygen, while the other form does not. Part of the water vapor emitted by the seas Is decomposed by the ultra-violet rays of the sun; the hydrogen formed rises toward the high atmospheric atmo-spheric strata, and all the water does not return to the surface. Therefore, There-fore, the quantity of water on the face of the globe is always diminishing diminish-ing and the earth is Incessantly, if gradually, drying. To cite one example: On the north side of the Alps there Is a continual falling off in the depth of the lakes and a gradual formation of swamps. Two hundred and fifty years ago there were 149 lakes In the canton of Zurich, today ther are seventy-six. The destruction of the forests and the cultivation of the land partly explain ex-plain this, but the loss of hydrogen is an Important factor. The hydrogen accumulated In the higher atmosphere atmo-sphere Is diffused In Interstellar space. Harper's Weekly. |
