Word: acidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berthelot proved the science of organic chemistry. Before him chemists thought that they could make compounds only of inorganic elements, that organic growths depended upon a "vital principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene...
Father Edmundo Almeida, Spanish Jesuit priest, has invented a new type electric storage battery. U. S. students who had heard him lecture on his battery at Cadiz, Seville and San Sebastian, Spain, during the spring, last week said that it was more efficient than the common acid battery or the Edison alkaline battery. The Argentine magazine Estudios gave details...
...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...
...affectionately termed by those in the "know" as the "Short Green" for obvious reasons, rode into town last night for the first of their long series of annual games with the CRIMSON. The carboys, according to Mr. Webster, are vessels commonly used to contain corrosive liquids, usually sulfuric acid. Managers commonly contain almost anything...
...Fuel Acids. Chemist H. C. Mougy of the General Motors research staff pointed out that the U. S. oil industry could save 50 millions per annum in refining costs if motor designers could safeguard motors against fuels containing a higher percentage of sulphur than is now left in good grade gasoline. Motor designers aim to protect motors from sulphuric acid corrosion by eliminating condensation of the water vapor from burning fuel...