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The stir in scientific circles when air was first liquefied has not yet subsided, and even the layman has been unable to appreciate some of the wonderful things which can be done with ... See full summary

The stir in scientific circles when air was first liquefied has not yet subsided, and even the layman has been unable to appreciate some of the wonderful things which can be done with liquid air. The Gaumont Company has caught some of these for the screen in its picture called "The Air." A goldfish swimming is a bowl is dropped into a liquid air bath and immediately removed so hard that it is broken with a hammer as if made of marble. The same process is repeated with the blossoms of flowering plants. Other experiments with air show how one can be asphyxiated with his own breath, how nitrogen is a dilutent of the oxygen in the air, and how a substance burns in pure oxygen. Another entertaining subject on the same reel visualizes the orange industry in California. There is a view of a 6,000-acre orange grove, and then follow pictures of the processes of picking and handling. It may come as a surprise to some that the oranges are given a bath and disinfected before they are sorted. The ...