Text: In the reducing of colloids from a non-crystalline state to a crystalline state, the current and rays used must be such as to produce a synchronous action. It is well known that colloidal "solutions" do not obey the solution laws: the alterations of the boiling and freezing points are inappreciable and the osmotic pressures very small. A colloidal solution is, in reality, a disperse system, and in the case of attempting to "knock down" the suspended metallic colloid one must cause what might be called coagulation and precipitation of the metallic colloid found in metallic sulphides, chlorides or salts of a metal in a non-crystalline form to a coagulated and crystalline state. Now, whatever frequency of current used and whatever ray or rays used, the frequency of the current and the wave length of the ray or rays used should harmonize so as to blend or synchronize with the natural frequency or wave length of the substance treated so as to produce the synchronous action that will set up a vibration for which we might "coin" an expression and call this action a "superultra sonic reaction" between the frequency of current, the wave length of the ray, and the vibratory rate of the substance treated to cause the desired metabolic or catalystic reaction which will result in, I am convinced, a complete change in the mode of mining. That the mining of the future will not be done in the crude ways of the past. Man's work with animals, vegetables, fruits, flowers, and all sorts of animal and vegetable IHe has shown that he can improve on the things that nature produced. Man must first go to nature to learn, but then he must learn to improve over nature's ways. I am positively convinced that man can improve nature's mineral deposits by making "colloids" "grow," if one does not object to such an expression. Or, in other words, speed up nature's action and obtain the same or better results in a fraction of the time taken by nature. In the catalystic production of metals from "colloids," one must remember that like begets like, and one cannot obtain copper from the "salts" of some other metallic deposit. In the catalystic production of metals from colloids one must not confuse this process with the evolution of forces and the evolution of matter, the former being the process of "growing" from colloids, the latter the actual phenomena of energy becoming matter and matter, energy. This still is not a process of splitting the atom, but changing the arrangements of them. The real test of science in modern destruction lies not in the explosion of matter by matter or matter by energy; but energy by energy, "super" ultra sonics against the vibrations of matter. (T. Henry Moray)

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