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Infusible Ice

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PROF. CARNELLEY'S directions in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 341, just received, for producing the hitherto fabulous commodity, “hot ice,” have succeeded so much beyond our expectations for a first experiment in our College laboratory to-day, that the ease and simple means with which the experiment was performed, and the unaccountable and unaccustomed appearances which it presented, recommend it very strongly, as Prof. Carnelley remarks in his paper, and as I hope that the following description may also serve to prove, to other observers' trials and repetitions.

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HERSCHEL, A. Infusible Ice. Nature 23, 383–384 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023383b0

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