Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrinkled little face stared up from a shapeless bag of black hair. Acid burns had disfigured the baby gorilla's face-its look was malevolent. But the baby, named Buddy, was sick...
...metal method was evolved through rigorous experimentation. Mrs. Mullen left her paintings out in snowstorms, stowed them in damp places, cooked them on hot radiators, to see how they would take it. Using a surface prepared by etching and acid, with tested paints and finishes, she learned how to accomplish a sound union between the metals and oils...
...Florida Agricultural Experiment Station scientists gave the public a formula for eking out sugar: mix 1 Ib. of sugar with 7 oz. water, ¼ teaspoon tartaric acid, cover, boil for 30 minutes, cool. Result is equal sweetening, cup for cup, to straight sugar...
Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...
...starting point: his discovery that pentose, a sugar which is plentiful in corn and wood but has hitherto resisted fermentation by yeast enzymes, can be attacked and broken down by other enzymes secreted by certain fungi grown on mineral foodstuffs. The fungi reduce pentose to a heavy syrup (pyruvic acid) easily converted to ethyl alcohol...