Clive Thompson
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Emma
@emmajuettner@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago
Housekeepers' Recipes, page 159. To Make Artificial Volcanoes — For this curious experiment, which enables us to assign a very probable cause for volcanoes, we are indebted to Lemery. Mix equal parts of pounded sulfur and iron filings; and, having formed the whole into a paste with water, bury a quantity of it, forty or fifty pounds for example, at about the depth of a foot below the surface of the earth. In ten or twelve hours afterwards, if the weather be warm, the earth will swell up and burst, and Flames will issue out, which will enlarge the aperture, scattering around a yellow and blackish dust. It is not impossible that what is here seen in miniature takes place on a grand scale in volcanoes, as it is well known that they furnish abundance of sulphur and also metallic substances
Housekeepers' Recipes, page 159. To Make Artificial Volcanoes — For this curious experiment, which enables us to assign a very probable cause for volcanoes, we are indebted to Lemery. Mix equal parts of pounded sulfur and iron filings; and, having formed the whole into a paste with water, bury a quantity of it, forty or fifty pounds for example, at about the depth of a foot below the surface of the earth. In ten or twelve hours afterwards, if the weather be warm, the earth will swell up and burst, and Flames will issue out, which will enlarge the aperture, scattering around a yellow and blackish dust. It is not impossible that what is here seen in miniature takes place on a grand scale in volcanoes, as it is well known that they furnish abundance of sulphur and also metallic substances
Housekeepers' Recipes, page 159. To Make Artificial Volcanoes — For this curious experiment, which enables us to assign a very probable cause for volcanoes, we are indebted to Lemery. Mix equal parts of pounded sulfur and iron filings; and, having formed the whole into a paste with water, bury a quantity of it, forty or fifty pounds for example, at about the depth of a foot below the surface of the earth. In ten or twelve hours afterwards, if the weather be warm, the earth will swell up and burst, and Flames will issue out, which will enlarge the aperture, scattering around a yellow and blackish dust. It is not impossible that what is here seen in miniature takes place on a grand scale in volcanoes, as it is well known that they furnish abundance of sulphur and also metallic substances
llewelly
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nellie-m
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