Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Solid Oxygen. [ARTICLE]

Solid Oxygen.

Prof. Dewar, the chemist, has. compressed oxygen under an intense degree of cold, a degree almost beyond the •power of imagination, into a pale blue fluid, a thing which, although it has been done before, has not been dbne to such an extent or in such quantity, has solidified oxygen Into a Jelly, has made ozone into a htplslazull-blue liquid, and has also liquefied air. He has made the suggestion that possibly the vast shining night clouds, concerning whose composition, whether of congregated stars at immeasurable distance or of nebulous matter slowly concentrating into stars, astronomers have arrived at no fixed conclusion, may really be only masses of carbonic acid gas frozen in the unspeakable cold of the Interstellar spaces t wh!ch is probably the zero of absolute