Penny Dreadfuls, 1927 · page 17 of 42
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# Analysis This is **not** a Victorian penny dreadful page, but rather a **scientific article conclusion page** from an academic journal. The visible text presents numbered findings (points 4-7) summarizing experimental results about how various metallized silica gels absorb different gases—oxygen, methane, ethylene, and carbon dioxide. The page concludes with an institutional attribution to the University of Minnesota's School of Chemistry. This appears to be early-to-mid twentieth-century scientific publication, entirely unsuitable to the penny dreadful genre described in your prompt.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ADSORPTION OF GASES BY METALLIZED SILICA GELS © IOI 4—Oxygen is very specifically adsorbed by the copperized gel. The other metallized gels also exhibit specific adsorption for oxygen. 5—There appears to be no marked specific adsorption of the gels for me- thane. 6—The metallized silica gels all adsorb ethylene more strongly than does silica gel. 7—The adsorption of carbon dioxide gives little evidence of a specific effect except perhaps in the case of copper. The School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. CoOnmiclooo 0 <=) (C(O)