#degassing

Jul 27 1918 #OTD Near Tours, this photo, IWM Q 60977, shows a soldier of American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1 SOS wearing an oilskin gas-proof suit Right: Jul 21 1918 IWM Q 60978 Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS mobile shower spray IWM Q 60979 Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS truck

Pvt L.P. Goldshlag

of Pvt 1st CL H.P. Aiken gas service wearing oil skin gas proof suit while attending to soldiers who have been gassed. Mobile Degassing Unit No. 1. S.O.S., Tours, France

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Jul 21 1918 #OTD At Tours, France, a US official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 60978, of an American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS with mobile shower spray in full operation.

National Archives Identifier:55195362 Local Identifier:111-SC-17636

IWM Q 60979 - A truck of the American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS at Tours  

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Jul 21 1918 #OTD At Tours, France, a US official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 60978, of an American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS with mobile shower spray in full operation. 

IWM Q 60979 - A truck of the American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS at Tours  

21 July 1918-07-21

Jul 27 1918 IWM Q 60977 "A soldier of the American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS wearing gas proof suit. It's an oilskin gas-proof suit worn while attending gassed soldiers. Tours"

Aug 20 1918 Entrance to dugout where mustard gas cases bathed & given new uniforms before evacuation. Medic of US 6th Infantry wears protective suit & French Tissot box respirator. Croix-de-Charemont, France.

Jul 27 1918 Near Tours, this photo, IWM Q 60977, shows a soldier of American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS wearing an oilskin gas-proof suit

Jul 21 1918 At Tours, France, a US official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 60978, of an American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS with mobile shower spray in full operation.

IWM Q 60979 - A truck of the American Mobile Degassing Unit No 1. SOS at Tours  

21 July 1918-07-21

IWM Q 56990, Pte Sloan of American Army wearing a rubber suit as protection against gas in the woods near Croix de Claremont Aug 20 1918.

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Aug 20 1918 Entrance to dugout where mustard gas cases bathed & given new uniforms before evacuation. Medic of US 6th Infantry wears protective suit & French Tissot box respirator. Croix-de-Charemont, France.

When making the face flesh I found that if I just mixed and poured the silicone the end result was full of bubbles, so to get bubble-free casting I needed to degas the silicone before pouring it into the mould. To do this I need a vacuum chamber. I would only need it a few times and I certainly couldn’t justify spending £2500 on a professional one. So I made one! I’ve used a compressor from a scrap fridge and a thick glass storage jar from The Range. A few parts were needed from the air and hydraulic hose shop. Total cost- £28! Instead of putting my mixture in a separate container and putting it in the chamber I just poured it straight into the chamber itself! At £3.49 I’m not too worried if I make it messy, and this way I could watch the degassing with interest through the glass sides. See next post for video.

Nyiragongo volcano

The upper image, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth-Observing 1 satellite shows Nyiragongo volcano near the border between the African nations of Rwanda and the Congo. It sits in the African rift zone and is one of the most active volcanoes in the area, regularly forming lava lakes. The lower images show the Alaskan volcano Veniamanof, described in this recent post.

Compared to the image of Veniamanof, the Nyiragongo cloud looks different; the cloud coming out of this volcano is mostly gases such as steam that were dissolved in the magma, whereas the plumes from Veniamanof contained both steam and ash because that volcano is more explosive. The gases from Nyiragongo are departing the volcano but they’re coming out easily because the magma is lower viscosity (effectively less sticky).

Simply from satellite imagery you can gain information on the type of eruption going on, how dangerous it is, and even what type of rock is involved.

-JBB

Image credit: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81807