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Show Rotting of Eggs Blamed on Carbon Dioxide Lack According to a Cornell chemist, one of the chief reasons for the rotting of eggs is the escape ot carbon dioxide gas through the shell. He discovered that newly laid eggs contain tills gas In a limited lim-ited quantity, hut the porousness of the shell permits It to pass off within with-in a short time. Fie proved, however, that the egg wottld reabsorb the gas, and by exposing the shells to a minute quantity of carbon dioxide succeeded succeed-ed in keeping them fresh indefinitely. indefinite-ly. The cost of the treatment was said to be a few hundredths of a cent per dozen. |