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THE HON. SIR CHAELES ALGERNON PARSONS: EXPERIMENTS ON 



EXPERIMKNT. 



4-inch mould; iron sulphide core, carbide mixture, and wood charcoal 



round, 20 tons pressure, 10 k.w.m. total heating, heating 1J minutes. 

 4f -inch mould ; iron sulphide core, carborundum, caustic soda, and 



sulphur round, 20 tons pressure, 30 k.w.m. total heating, heating 



3J minutes. 

 4|-inch mould ; iron sulphide core, carborundum, caustic soda, sodium 



carbonate and sulphur round, 15 tons pressure, 30 k.w.m. total 



heating, about ton of gaseous pressure when somewhat cooled and 



ram released, heating 3 minutes, 

 if-inch mould ; iron sulphide core, carborundum, sodium carbonate and 



sulphur round, 15 tons pressure, 30 k.w.m. total heating, heating 



8 minutes. 

 4f-inch mould ; iron sulphide core, carborundum and caustic soda round, 



15 tons pressure, 25 k.w.m. total heating, about 2 tons of gaseous 



pressure when" ram released, heating 6 minutes. 

 4f-inch mould ; iron sulphide core, carborundum, calcium fluoride and 



sulphur round, 20 tons pressure, 25 k.w.m. total heating, about 1 ton 



of gaseous pressure when ram released, heating 1J minutes. 

 4|-inch mould ; carbon core, paper tube round it filled with iron fluoride, 



silica round, 20 tons pressure, 40 k.w.m. total heating, heating 



1 minute. 

 4-inch mould ; carbon rod core, 2-inch paper tube filled with carborundum 



and sodium, outside paper tube packed with marble, graphite on top, 



20 tons pressure, 25 k.w.m. total heating, sodium carbide and silicon 



formed, heating 1 minute 5 seconds. 

 4-inch mould ; J-inch carbon rod core, 3-iiich paper tube containing sodium 



and carborundum, calcium carbide round, 26 tons pressure, 18 k.w.m. 



total heating, heating 1 minute. 

 4-inch mould; f-inch carbon roil core, iron filings round, carborundum 



on top, then sodium and mercury covered with iron filings, 26 tons 



pressure, 80 k.w.m. total heating, heating 1 minute. 

 4-inch mould ; J-inch carbon rod core, 1^-inch paper tube containing iron 



filings, carbon round, sodium on top, 26 tons pressure, 30 k.w.m. total 



heating, heating 40 seconds. 

 4-inch mould; -inch carbon rod core, 1^-inch paper tube containing 



iron, barium oxide and strontium oxide, carborundum round, 



sodium on top, 26 tons pressure, 50 k.w.m. total heating, heating 



2f minutes. 

 4-inch mould ; filled with marble, pressed, 1^-inch hole drilled in it, 



i-inch carbon rod in centre, iron, carbon, carborundum and titanium 



round, sodium on top, 26 tons pressure, 37 k.w.m. total heating, 



heating 3J minutes. 



4-inch mould ; filled with bauxite pressed to 20 tons, 1^-inch hole drilled 

 in it, J-inch carbon rod in centre, iron, lampblack, carborundum and 

 bauxite round, sodium on top, 26 tons pressure, 30 k.w.m. total heating, 

 heating 4 minutes, charge blew out. 



RESULT. 



Nil. 



Some crystals. 

 Some crystals. 



Nil. 

 Nil. 

 Nil. 

 Nil. 

 Nil. 



Nil. 

 Nil. 

 Nil. 

 Nil 



Nil. 



Some crystals from ejected 

 iron. 



