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Updated: June 7, 2025
The Union Carbide Company, at Pearl and Elm Streets, had been destroyed in an explosion caused supposedly by the carbide coming in contact with water. The river reached the stage of 69.3 feet at noon, Saturday, and continued to rise at the rate of two-tenths of a foot every two hours.
But it seems exceedingly probable that a compromise will ultimately be effected between the methods adopted for making water-gas and calcium carbide respectively, the electric current being employed to keep the carbons incandescent.
But Tom knew if the hose were turned on the fire in the red shed a great explosion would result, for some of the tins of carbide would be melted by the heat. Yet the fire needed to be coped with. Already the flames were coming through the roof, and the windows and door were spouting red fire and volumes of smoke.
The bogs of the Ems Valley alone cover 13,000 square miles; and Dr. Frank proposes the erection in that district of a 10,000 horse power electric station, which would yearly consume 200,000 tons of peat, or the product of 200 acres. He would use the electrical energy on the Dortmund and Emshaven Canal, and for the manufacture of calcium carbide.
"Tom, you must do something," said Mr. Swift. "If the flames once reach that helmanite " "I know, Father. But that explosive is in double vacuum containers, and it will be safe for some time yet. Besides, it's in the cellar. It's the carbide I'm most worried about. We daren't use water." "But something will have to be done!" exclaimed Mr. Damon. "Bless my red necktie, if we don't "
There'll be no trouble from the Rodaines!" She came a little closer to him then and looked up at him with trustful eyes, all the brighter in the spluttering light of the carbide. "Thank you it seems that I 'm always thanking you. I was afraid I did n't know where to go to whom to turn. I thought of you. I knew you 'd help me women can guess those things." "Can they?" Fairchild asked it eagerly.
There was, however, a still brighter illuminant within their reach in the shape of acetylene, but not until it became certain that they would have to spend a second winter in the Antarctic, did their thoughts fly to the calcium carbide which had been provided for the hut, and which they had not previously thought of using.
"Haven't much more sand left," was Tom's comment, as he sent down a last shower. "That will have to do. Hustle that carbide and other explosive stuff out of there now, while you have a chance." "That's it!" cried Ned, who caught his chums meaning. "Come on, Koku. There's work for you." "Me like work," answered the giant, stretching out his great arms.
Marys seen the white spruce shaven of its brown bark and ground and sheeted and loaded into the gaping holds of Clark's steamships seen the blast furnaces vomit their molten metal seen the rhythmic pumps and dynamos send water and light through every artery of the young city seen the veneer mills ripping out flexible miles of their satiny wood seen the power house on the American side making carbide to the low rumble of thousands of horsepower, and seen the electric railway that linked Ironville with St.
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. The biting cold wind made work difficult, and we had to warm up frequently in our living room, where we had a good fire in an improvised stove made of a large carbide can.
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