LUMINOUS SUGAR.
"A Government scientist," wo read, "during tho courso of certain experiments," has discovered "a phenomenon tho cause of which has not yet been satisfactorily oxpluined." Ho mounted a disk of loaf-sugar on a Jatho and caused it to rotate rapidly. Bringing a hammer into light contact with tho sugar, he obsorvod a fairly steady radiation of light. Ho satisfied himself that "tho -light did not arisn from heating of tho crystals, and sugigentft that wo havo lioro a now mothod of illumination. Surely a very liolnlcd "scientist 1" Tho production of flashoM of light by rubbing crystals of loaf-sugar together in the dark haa boon a familiar electrical experiment from the infancy of ih& Boiencift
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 98, 25 April 1908, Page 14
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117LUMINOUS SUGAR. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 98, 25 April 1908, Page 14
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