Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — Conservation of Mass. [ARTICLE]

Conservation of Mass.

So much has been said lately about the aparent upsetting Of long-estab-lished scientific axioms that particular interest attaches to a recent confirmstion of a principle that has long been tacitly assumed as correct although li late years It has been questioned. In 1906 H. Landolt believed that he had shown a measurable loss of msss during certain chemical reactions, and he was disposed to ascribe the loss to the emission of electrons. This year Landolt has succeeded In tracing the apparent loss of mass to minute changes In the volume of the glass' vessels employed in the- experiments. The general conclusion which he now draws vfirom - all his - experiments is that no chanjge of mass can 0 be detected as a result of chemical reactions, and the law of conservation of mass in this case if true Wlthiif the very small limits of experimental error.