Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — Light from Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Light from Sugar.

Starlight, sunlight, moonlight, gaslight, lamplight, candle light, electric light and now sugar light. A phenomenon whose cause has not as yet been satisfactorily explained recently was observed by an expert during the course of certain experiments. Disks of loaf sugar were mounted on a lathe and rapidly rotated while a ham mer played lightly against them. An almost continuous radiation was thus produced from the sugar. It was shown that the light did not arise from heating the sugar, and it is believed to have been caused by some change having taken place In the sugar crystals. The act of crystallization is known to be accompanied sometimes by flashes of light. The practical bearing of These experiments is on the question of obtaining artificial light by methods as yet untried.