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A -NEW CORDITE PRESERVATIVE By Telegraph—Pres3 AEsocietion-CopyriehV '' r / London, March 4. Th'o greatest seciocy is being maintained in connection with a discovery for thb preservation of cordite from deterioration in hot climates. The treatment is based on molybdenum.
In view, of cordite lenses the French r.uthoritios are inquiring-as- to deposits of molybdenum in Australia.
Within tlio month ihe price of the ore has risen from 755. to 110s.
Supplies are unobtainable,
Molybdenum is a • metallic chemical element. It occurs in nature chiefly as the minerals molybdenite and wulfenito. and more rarely ns mobydic ochre anil ilsemauriite; it also occurs in many iron ores. The metal may be obtained by heating-the'trioxide with carbon in the electric fnrnnce. It forms a preycoloured powder of specific gravity 9.011 and.is malleable and not as hard as glass.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7
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137SECRET OF EXTREME VALUE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 7
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