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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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ill this way. If benzoic acid or its first cousin hip- 

 puric acid is deposited on a glass slide and covered 

 with a piece of thin glass, moisture from the air 

 will supply what is known as water of crystalliza- 

 tion, and tiny, flat, circular crystals will be soon 

 noticed. Without batting your eye, you can see 

 these acid crystals steadily growing, increasing as 

 if endowed with life. The most beautiful and varie- 

 gated play of colors, far surpassing those of a rain- 

 bow, will at the same time be seen. At the same 

 moment, multitudes of the same sort of crystals 

 are being born, growing, and crowding the other 

 rapidly growing brother crystals. This has a 

 mutual modifying action upon the shapes of the 

 neighboring crystals. If the pressure still increases, 

 the crystals will grow perpendicularly and soon ex- 

 pand and hang over the sides of the slides in 

 beautifully decorative and rococo figures not un- 

 like the hanging gardens of Babylon. 



During the growth of the crystals almost any 

 design might have been forced, although this is 

 not possible on a large scale, when crystals are 

 growing by themselves in their mother liquor. But 

 these small microscopic solutions, always under the 

 control of the skilled physicist, can be made to grow 

 crystals of faceted gems, Byzantine drapery, 

 feathery handings, Gobelin tapestries, and all sorts 

 of designs of symmetrical, geometric, and fairy- 

 like construction. 



Almost any sort of crystallizable chemical can be 



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