Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Russell Henry Chittenden, 87, discoverer of protein, longtime director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (1898-1922); in New Haven, As a 19-year-old Sheffield senior, he was the first to isolate in living tissue a free amino acid, found in it the glycocoll and glycogen later famed as protein...
Chemist Crocker, who is pioneering a new science of the senses, works in the top-flight Arthur D. Little industrial laboratory.* In classifying his vapory perceptions, he reduces all odors to four basic ones: fragrant (e.g., animal musk), acid (vinegar), burnt (roasted coffee), caprylic (goaty or sweaty). Each is further classified in eight degrees of strength. These basic smells in various combinations make up thousands of different odors, most of which Crocker can recognize at one sniff...
What's in a Name? In analyzing smells, Crocker sniffs for each basic component, like an orchestra conductor listening for specific instruments, then describes the total effect by numbers. Thus, the Crocker description of a rose is 6423, representing the relative strength of its fragrant, acid, burnt and caprylic components, respectively...
...experiment was performed in 1939 are still alive and healthy. The autojector can also keep a dog's heart beating outside its body, has kept a decapitated dog's head alive for hours-the head cocked its ears at a noise and licked its chops when citric acid was smeared on them. But the machine is incapable of reviving a whole dog more than about 15 minutes after its blood is drained-body cells then begin to disintegrate...
Doctors' conclusions: few vitamins are lost in sweat, despite its variety. The only vitamin lost in any quantity is nicotinic acid, the antipellagra factor...