Word: acidities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments in Germany and England he douched female rats with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution to get male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since last July, Director Durfee has reported 100% success in predetermining the predominant sex. Rat A845 (see cut) was douched once with lactic acid and bore six females, two males. Then she was douched with...
Corn fodder can be stored in silos because it has a high content of carbohydrates. Fermentation breaks down the carbohydrates into lactic and acetic acids, which inhibit bacterial action, keep the fodder from rotting. Untreated hay, wet or not, rots in a silo because it is so low in carbohydrate content that the alkaline products of fermentation overcome the effect of the acids. Monsanto's technique is to chop up the hay, blow it into a silo and blow "Phosilage" in with it. "Phosilage," which is 75% phosphoric acid, neutralizes the alkalinity, allows the natural acids to do their...
...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...
Other contests scheduled for Saturday night in addition to the featured Harvard-Dartmouth tilt are Pennsylvania at Cornell and Princeton at Columbia. According to reports from Tigertown, this Princeton-Columbia fracas will provide an acid test as to the success of the Cappon coaching regime inaugurated this year. Cappy Cappon was slated to lift, the Tigers out of the basketball doldrums, but as yet his team has failed in every crucial test...
...With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...