Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — Interesting Experiment [ARTICLE]

Interesting Experiment

E&berlments just completed by two French scientists have reopened the controversy whether rudimentary manifestations of life can be produced in inorganic matter. These men took a glaum tube containing a solution of colloidal silica/ sealed it by melting the glass and subjected tube and contents to a high temperature, long enough to sterilise them thoroughly, according to all current ideas of sterilisation. The tube was then kept moderately warm for two months, and when opened die contents were full of living bacteria. Objectors contend that the : colloidal silica probably operates to j protect bacteria originally In the so- j lution from the effects of the heat 1 TturlHitti'iti .*