AT THE SEASIDE
SALT WATER EFFECTS. Some people are worried to find that car cushions have a white deposit on them after a visit to the seaside. This is quite dissimliar to the rather complex oxide which forms on aluminium work, and is commonly due to a deposit of dissolved salt from the sea, carried in suspense by .the wind. The ordinary sea varies very much in its degree of saltness, and contains, in microscopic quantities, almost every conceivable element. Most ordinary salts are hygroscopic in that they dissolve readily in water. It is this property which causes table salt to coagulate from the moisture extracted from the air, while a similar condition causes rugs, bathing costumes, and artifieial leather to feel unpleasantly sticky after the car has stood by the shore for a short time. Salt water has been known to affect some types of fibre, and may also affect magnetos.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 34, 2 October 1931, Page 5
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152AT THE SEASIDE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 34, 2 October 1931, Page 5
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