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liipiif: Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe." M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1897. flsgk Or. Walter C. Besley, DEM TX8T WEST McHENUTt Office a* Geo. W. Be-ley's | Drag Store, | Examinations free Sole Agency fbr the Celebrated POLAR STAR Fancy Flour! HARDER THAN A DIAMOND. Henri Moissan, the distinguished , French chemist who created a sensa­ tion a few years ago by producing small tfhite diamonds in his electric furnace, Isynow credited with another interesting^ achievement,, says the New • York Tribune. This latter piece of work while perhaps not quite so stat- tling as the other, will probably prove of more practical benefit to mankind , and hence a source of greater revenue to M. Moissan. Hitherto the diamond has been con­ sidered the hardest thing in nature. The closest approach to it, until recent- 1 ly, was made by the ruby; Something halfway between them, in this respect, was discovered only two or three years ago by E. C. Acheson of Pittsburg, who was experimenting with an electric furnace for an entirely different pur­ pose. He, too, was trying to make artificial jewels, and succeeded in get­ ting a lot of small crystals which.were neither diamonds nor rubles, but were harder than the latter. They were composed of sixty-nine parts of silica and thirty-one parts of carbon. Tech­ nically the substance is a "carbide of silicon." The discoverer, however,gave to it the name carborundum, and is now manufacturing about two tons of it daily at Niagara Falls for chemical purposes. It is used for the same pur­ pose as emery. Moissan's new product is carbide of the rare metal titanium. The proper materials having been deposited in a small crucible made of lime, an electric current of large volume and low volt­ age is turned on, a temperature of 4,000 or 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit is devel­ oped, and, then the stuff is allowed to cool. The resulting crystals are said to be harder than diamonds,which now take the second place. Carborundum comes next and the ruby drops to the fourth rank. The carbide of titanium is as much harder than carborundum as carborun­ dum is harder than emery. The latter two are only good for abrasive service; that- is, they are employed only for grinding and polishing other very hard substances. It is probable that car­ bide of titanium will have a much more extensive use. There are many rock- cutting drills which consist of a tube, in one edge of which are embedded brown or black diamonds. M. Mois- san's new product will be both cheaper and more efficient than these. It may also be substituted for real jewels in watches, delicate balances and in other mechanism where small bits of partic­ ularly hard material are needed as bearings. The discoverer has applied for patents on his invention in this country as well as Europe, and it is thought probable that the French aca­ demy will award him a certain $10,000 prize offered some time ago for a sat­ isfactory substitute for black diamonds. Titanium, when pure, is white, and about half as heavy as iron. It is al­ most impossible to buy any because there is no demand, and consequently no production. However, it Is not so very scarce. An oxide of titanium, found in the form of small black stones that give a red mark, is picked up in some newly plowed fields in Pennsyl­ vania and sells for $4 a pound. The metal is frequently found in combina­ tion with iron, but hitherto has been regarded as a nuisance, because it ren­ ders an ore refractory. A recent writ­ er says: "Millions of tons of Iron ore in Virginia and New York are made worthless by the presence of 5 or 6 per cent of titanium." PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY r . V A . N S L Y K E " EDITOB AND PROPRIETOR. 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