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IN view of the several letters about mercury bubbles which you have recently published, I beg to mention that molten steel is also capable of forming bubbles. If a bucket full of water be placed in a suitable position underneath and a little to the front of a Bessemer converter, then on removing the bucket after the completion of a blow it will be found to contain small spheres of steel ranging in size from a pin's head to that of peas, and even larger. These spheres are hollow, and some are perforated, and occasional ones are twins and triplets, sets of hollow spheres having plunged into the water at the instant they stuck together.
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STROMEYER, C. Mercury Bubbles. Nature 79, 160 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079160f0
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