CRYSTAL ICE.
A new skating surface called " crystal ice," has 'been recently invented by Dr. Oaluntariente, of Scarborough. Ho experimented with a variety of salts, and after a time succeeded in making a mixture consisting mainly of carbonate and sulphate of: soda, whiob, when laid as a floor by his plan, can be skated on with ordinary ice skates j the resistance of the surface ia just equal to that of ice, it looks like ice, and indeed when it has been skated on, and got " cut up " a little, the deception is quite astonishing. A small experimental floor has boen laid in the skating rink at Prinoe's, and has proved so successful that no doubt a large floor will be laid there or at some other convenient place in the autumn. This floor will obviously have great advantages, both over artificial ice floors, which are very expensive indeed, and over floors for l-olltr skating. The surface can at any time De made smooth again by steaming '.rith an apparatus for the purpose, and the floor itself when onoe laid will last for many yeart.. It is interesting to observe that the luixture of salts ÜBed. contains about 60 per cent, of water of crystallisation, so that all the floor consists chiefly of solidified water.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2046, 14 September 1880, Page 3
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215CRYSTAL ICE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2046, 14 September 1880, Page 3
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