Berlin, Feb. 15.
A new research institute of the an Dye Trust (I. G. Farbenindustrie) has been opened at Bitter-feld for investigating the physical properties of aluminium and the alloys of magnesium, now largely used to replace iron, steel, copper and brass. These new research laboratories are the most modern and largest in Europe. Among its other aims, the new institute will endeavour to discover new alloys of aluminium and magnesium, two "German metals" because obtainable in unlimited quantitities from raw materials found in the Reich.—Trans-Ocean.
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