Place it between your palms and grind it to powder." "You know that is absurd; I cannot do it." "Why can't you do it ?" "Because it is of steel." "That is no reason.

Why can't you do it ?" He glared at her fiercely over his glasses, and she saw in his wild eye all the enthusiasm of an instructor enlightening a pupil.
"I'll tell you why you can't do it; because every minute particle of it is held together by an enormous force.

It may be heated red-hot and beaten into this shape and that, but still the force hangs on as tenaciously as the grip of a giant.

Now suppose I had some substance, a drop of which, placed on that piece of iron, would release the force which holds the particles together--what would happen ?" "I don't know," replied Jennie.
"Oh, yes you do!" cried the Professor impatiently; "but you are like every other woman--you won't take the trouble to think.

What would happen is this.