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Well, then Harry ran, to do much as Fairchild had done, to chuckle and laugh and toss the heavy bits of ore about, to stare at them in the light of his carbide torch, and finally to hurry into the new stope which had been fashioned by the hired miners in Fairchild's employ and stare upward at the heavy vein of riches above him. "Wouldn't it knock your eyes out?" he exclaimed, beaming.
This spectrum, which has been recognized along with that of hydrogen in the light of the tails of comets, indicates a carbide, probably acetylene. By P. CARLES. When tinned iron serves for containing alimentary matters, it is essential that the tin employed should be free from lead.
The carbide lamps were held close to the fuses for a second. Soon they were all going, spitting like so many venomous, angry serpents but neither Fairchild nor the miners had stopped to watch. They were running as hard as possible for the shaft and for the protection that distance might give. A wait that seemed ages. Then: "One!" "And two and three!" "There goes four and five they went together!"
"You'd be bound to learn it. D'you know what the dinies' teeth are made of?" "It's been said," said President O'Hanrahan, "that it's bor ... boron carbide in organic form. What that means I wouldn't know, but we've got a fine crop of it!" "It's the next hardest substance to diamond," said the committeeman dourly. "It's even been guessed that an organic type might be harder.
In the light of the carbide torch, she was the same boyish appearing little person he had met on the Denver road, except that snow had taken the place of dust now upon the whipcord riding habit, and the brown hair which caressed the corners of her eyes was moist with the breath of the blizzard. Some way Fairchild found his voice, lost for a moment. "Are are you in trouble?" "No."
"But what are you going to do, Tom, if you don't use water?" asked Ned, wonderingly. "I don't know yet, but I know water is the worst thing you can put on carbide," returned Tom. For all he spoke Slowly his brain was working fast. Already, even now, he was planning how best to give battle to the flames.
"How?" questioned Jed Sanborn, who had never used such a "new-fangled consarn," as he called the bicycle lamp. "I'll show you," answered Shep. "just heap up some of the wood, with the little sticks on the bottom." The wood was heaped up and then, in a hollow in the snow underneath, Shep dumped out some of the carbide from the can.
"Not at this fire," was Tom's answer. "There's a lot of calcium carbide in that red shed that's why it's red to warn the men of danger. You know what happens when water gets on carbide there's an explosion, and there's enough carbide in that shed to send the whole works sky high. "Drop that hose!" yelled Tom in louder tones. "Drop it, Rad Koku! Do you want to kill us all!"
Then he lit the fuses from his lamp and stood a second in assurance that they all were spluttering. "Now we run!" he announced, and they hurried, side by side, down the drift tunnel until they reached the shaft. "Far enough," said Harry. A long moment of waiting. Then the earth quivered and a muffled, booming roar came from the distance. Harry stared at his carbide lamp. "One," he announced.
Three minutes later, while Thorn was busily pouring himself a second helping of Five-Star Hennessy, Captain Lacey returned to the table with an army officer wearing the insignia of a bird colonel. "Colonel Dower," the captain said, "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine Mr. Richard Thorn, the top research man with North American Carbide & Metals. Mr. Thorn, this is Colonel Edward Dower."
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