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Show Sea water has been converted into a beverage. A little citric acid or citrate of silver is precipitated, and a harmless mineral water is produced. An ounce of citrate renders a half-pint of water drinkable. drink-able. Seven ounces would furnish a shipwrecked man with water for a week. The question is how to secure the citrate to the ship-wrecked man. It is recommended recom-mended that those who go to sea carry with them a bottle of the citrate protected by an India rubber covering, or that such bottles should be furnished in life preservers. pre-servers. In the latter case, however, the people about to be shipwrecked must not leave the life preservers behind. If, with presence of mind, they remember to take them, all the agonies of thirst portrayed in nautical stories may remain unrealized fiction. |