GAS £200 PER CUBIC FOOT.
That rare element helion, which was found first in the sim by the spectroscope, nnd then by Professor Ramsay in the mineral clevite, is, says the. "Lancet," the costliest substance known. It has been found lately in the gases given out by. the hot springs at Bath, and there Prof. Dewar is collecting it to submit jth* element to his high pressures and low temperatures. ,It - costs £200 per cubic foot to collect, or more than a million times the price of coal gas. To freeze it enormous pressure and almost the absolute zero Of heat will be needed. The process is difficult and rather dangerous, and the professor and his assistants at the Royal Institution require to exercise the utmost care, for the escape of only five feet of the gas would mean £1000 gone irretrievably.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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142GAS £200 PER CUBIC FOOT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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