ATTRACTION FOR GOLD
AFFINITY OF CAI.OAIFL .Ml LAY ACKFF, A is., Sept. 7. Calomel, the while powder lormerly used lor every stoiuaen and intoslimd ailment, is scienu’s newest elieiniea! lor recovering p,o| ( | and jilatmuin llnlll Ii < 1111«IS. This strange Indiavicnir ol cue nl medicine’s most ancient remedies was announ.'ed to-day hy Dr. Cordon Pierson of Lonsdale, Pa., before the American Clieinieal Society. Not only will it pick out "old and platiimm accurately and completely Iruni a soiu- . ion, hut also arsenic, telluriiini, iodine and palladium. Calomel, known to the chemist as mercurous chloride, has a si ranee alunity J'or these elements, lie declared, and when (lie powder, which will not dissolve, is thrown into the mixture coutainine; them, the'yield and other elements hy to it and attaeji themselves. The powder then settles to the bottom, bringm" Hie elements for reeover\ atiti analysis.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 109, 14 November 1938, Page 1
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142ATTRACTION FOR GOLD Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 109, 14 November 1938, Page 1
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