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SOME time in the end of 1882 Surgeon-Major Biden, writing from Madras, related in NATURE that certain glass vases on which white-ant mud had been deposited had been eroded over the area of deposit in such a way as to suggest that an acid having, like hydrofluoric acid, a power of dissolving glass, was present in the “mud.” On reading this I was reminded of the observations of my teacher, Mr. George Rainey, recently deceased.
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ORD, W. Erosion of Glass. Nature 31, 360 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031360a0
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