WORLD ACHIEVEMENT
SOLID PETROL? Will the diiy come when solid petrol will be used in ears? It is quite possible. Indeed, solid petrol is no longer a theory hut si fact, for it has been made and used, though it is not yet available lor commercial purposes. Everyone knows that petrol is stih a dangerous servant. One never knows when it will explode or catch lire, doing tremendous damage, a menace to the ear on the road and the ’piano above the clouds. But a chemist in New York l niveasily lias found a way of taming this unruly spirit. Ho is l)r. Prussia, and he has spent the greater part of 20 years trying to find a way of making petrol sale to handle —so that you may pick up a block of it, throw it about, leave it near the lire, and be sure that there will be no frightful consequences. . , Success has attended Dr. Prussia s researches, lie has now a solid petrol which " ill run a motor,_ and yet is vastly different from liquid petrol. II it is held in a flame it burns slowly and evenlv. and if it is merely close to fire it does not burn at all. A block of this petrol may be fired at, and even if the bullets penetrate it, it will not burn or explode. It seems only reasonable to suppose that one day this tame petrol will be widely used, thus minimising the danger of explosion and fire.—(L).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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251WORLD ACHIEVEMENT Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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