NEW BILLIARD BALLS.
M. Henri de Perville, in a scienti article in the Bulletin Francois, mention a curious product :—-" In America, H> Hard balls of artificial ivory are made < remarkable hardness and of perfect if semblance to the natural substance. J&d made of the same" material have been qui in vogue for some months. The newbal have already been introduced into En? land and France. Lately, in London,! so happened that a player in lighting It cigar, let a match fall on the ball, wlw at once burst into a flame, to the gn) stupefaction of all present. Efforts W made to extinguish it, but unavailing!? and it had to be left until it was cm pletely consumed, whioh took a quarter ( an hour. An American chemist explain the secret of that unexpected combusti* The substance with which the new ivoi is made is called ' celluloid' in the Unit! States. It is a mixture of gun-cotton ai camphor, compressed and dried. Itfom a hard elastic material, which wl« polished, has an absolute resemblance t ivory. Everyone knows that campto burns readily with a blue flame. Q® cotton does better still, it explodes. Tl two combined and compressed, tW whether the inflammability of the result astonishing."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 148, 11 October 1876, Page 2
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205NEW BILLIARD BALLS. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 148, 11 October 1876, Page 2
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