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Mercury, or quicksilver as it is sometimes called in the vulgar tongue, is a heavy metal with an unusually low melting point. On that account, it is in liquid form at ordinary temperatures; and its use is possible in thermometers for measuring most terrestrial temperatures. It is produced in five or six times the quantity of a metal like gold; but, because its uses, though unique, are limited, it usually sells for about $1 a lb., while gold is worth 300 times that amount...
...resin formed from equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,
...Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house in the world, in Germany, Austria, Spain, England, Holland, France. She made many visits...
Rural banks are first to benefit. Old loans frozen back in 1921 and 1922 are gradually being paid off. Indeed, bankers predict that small local banks are sufficiently supplied with liquid funds to finance the movement of the current crop without recourse to New York, Chicago and other surplus money centres to the same extent that has been necessary in recent years...
...cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought along with it chills, fever and the so-called "serum sickness." It usually caused violent reactions; many physicians discarded...