36 Master Minds of Modern Science 



rusting it. Yet actually the entire molecular structure of 

 the metal is affected. It appears that the metals we use 

 in our knives, pens, motor-cars, and so forth are dead, 

 or at least in a state of coma caused by the enormous 

 temperatures and the pounding which they have suffered. 

 But the foregoing experiments make it conceivable that 

 in future we may make use of live metals in ways as yet 

 untried. 



Sir Jagadis ranks as one of the most original of scientific 

 explorers, for he is the first to prove that the three king- 

 doms of matter — the animal, the vegetable, and the 

 mineral — are one in essence, and that the distinction 

 previously drawn between organic and inorganic matter 

 is based on a false assumption. 



