Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the next year Hopkins spent more weeks at Mayo's. His trouble seemed to be that his stomach simply would not digest food; osmosis would not take place unless he took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...
...Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...
Psychologists Dispense and Hornbeck could not explain their results but thought that most probably the current had produced chemical changes in the mother rats' hormones. They based this theory on evidence that 1) an electrical current in body fluids produces acid at the anode and alkali at the cathode, 2) douching female rats with acid and alkaline solutions seems to affect their offsprings' intelligence in much the same way as electricity...
Like the latter, the new battery has an electrolytic fluid (sulfuric acid) and is recharged by passing a current through the fluid to build up the potential of the positive pole. But the new battery is made of new materials that cut weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents...
...Link and co-workers went on to get Dicumarol in pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...