Word: acidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might pick up the reins where they had been dropped. But the man who alone in all Russia had prepared himself for the new scheme of government was not soon to be succeeded. Over a span of five turbulent years, at any rate, his principles have received an acid test, and in some form still prevail...
Casein is a proteid of the nucleoalbumin group, existing in the milk of various animals, and an important by-product in the cheese industry. Pure casein is a white crumbling acid substance, used as a substitute for albumin in calico printing and for glue in cements. Last week members of the House Ways and Means Committee learned about casein and about many another product. For. to the committee came farmers, manufacturers, representatives of many U. S. industries...
Sodium nitrate fertilizer hand-made commercially from sodium carbonate and nitric acid...
...diamond it is the most precious natural substance, as coal the most valuable. Carbon plus oxygen gives carbon monoxide, whence grows a myriad of compounds; carbon plus hydrogen gives methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives. All can be made from soft coal. They constitute, in Dr. Slosson's fine phrase, the Fourth Kingdom (after animal, vegetable, mineral...
That the blood of cancerous people is less acid than the blood of normal people is well-known. A proper balance between hydrogen (acid) ions and hydroxyl (alkaline) ions is essential to health and normal cell growth. Too much alkalinity lets cells grow wild. That is one reason why radium and x-rays are used to treat cancer. They make blood acidulous. If doctors could easily and quickly tell the blood's hydrogen ion strength, they could use proper therapeutic means to prevent and treat cancer...