Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — Weighing a Perfume. [ARTICLE]

Weighing a Perfume.

An Italian physicist, Signor Salvioni, has devised a micro balance of such extreme delicacy that it clearly demonstrates the loss of weight of musk by volatilization. Thus the terisible perfume floating off in the air is indirectly weighed. The essential part of the apparatus is a vary tlnn thread of glass, fixed at one end and extended horizontally. The microscopic objects to be weighed are placed upon the glass thread near its free end, and the amount of flexure produced is observed with a microscope magnifying 100 diameters. A mote weighing one-thousandth of a milligram perceptibly bends the thread. - Read The Democrat for news.