| Show blar it OM gas under coder ian ic I a an interesting a chera chemical ical experiment quite now to me ino was performed by a party of skaters in the neighborhood of baltimore it is possible that it has been performed before bat I 1 have not yet found any anyone one who has hag seen or heard card of it the skaters ivero on a large artificial lako upon which remarkably clear ice bad formed in various places white spots were noticed in the ice su suggest agest id ing et as ono one of the said tui to roe me air bubbles somo some ono one bored a hole hola through ono one of those these white places and applied a llama flame to tile tho ga gai i which took ook I 1 fire this led to further arid and it was found that by boring a small hole a lung long thin jat diat of flame flama could be obtained and this continued tor for time tho the gas was of course marsh gas formed by the decomposition of the vegetable matter at tho the bottom of the lake the above method of domont demonstrating rt tho the formation of this gas in nature is from tile tho Eest esthetic botio point of 01 view a great improvement on the tha usual method described in tile the textbooks which consists B in stirring a pool of stagnant water with a stick and collecting the gas gag that rises to tho the surface skating ponds ponda illuminated by natural gas gaa are among tho the possibilities of the future lotter letter in science |
