Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...products are often much cheaper than those of fusion metal particularly for small complicated shapes like gears. They look just like ordinary metal to the naked eye; they can ultimately be made equally strong. But they have distinct advantages, chiefly 1) light weight, 2) porosity which enables them to absorb large quantities of oil, giving them semi-permanent built-in lubrication...
...from the Door Latch. About 1922 the U.S. electrical industry created a byproduct of its work with tungsten: bearings pressed from copper and iron alloys. Their sponginess was their advantage: the fine continuous pores (up to 40% by volume) can absorb oil, exude it by capillary action as needed. Often they require no further oiling after impregnation; they can be sealed into machinery (e.g., household refrigerators) and forgotten. By 1932 "oil-less" bearings were used for many purposes in automobiles and were in time found to outlive the rest of the machine. Billions of such bearings...
...Treated with organic solvents, soybean meal makes a plastic which is light, durable, almost transparent, waterproof, fireproof, rotproof. Many auto parts and countless miscellaneous objects are made of it. A main drawback, which chemists soon expect to overcome, is that it is hygroscopic (too eager to absorb water...
...Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three more NBC stations...
...ambition which led Napoleon to mutilate, dismember, absorb, fetter, and violate so many states: it was fear, the anxiety to reduce the losers to absolute impotence; but the result was always the opposite: the more Napoleon maltreated his victims, the more he feared them...