Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buying a large amount of high explosives, he fashioned on ingenious time bomb whose action depended on acid eating through a cork, and took a train to Washington. His story was that he wanted only to wake the American people up to the damage which explosives like these were doing abroad. At any rate, after wandering unmolested through the empty Senate chambers with...
...many attempted methods of using low-grade ore simple electrolysis proved best. Ore is dissolved in hydrochloric acid; the iron oxide dissolves to become ferric chloride; and when an electric current passes through the solution, the positively charged iron atoms migrate to the negative electrode. Advantage of electrolytic iron over smelted iron...
...Acid Test Ike, who manages punch-drunk fighters...
Lignin plastics are the cheapest plastics yet devised; at 5? per lb. for the powder they cost only one-third to one-fourth the cost of most synthetic resins. But today they have a still greater advantage-they require as little as 2 or 3% phenol (carbolic acid), a chief component of the commonest plastics and now a badly needed, priorities-listed ingredient. Furthermore, lignin molding powders can be mixed to "extend" phenol plastics by 100%, synthetic rubber for many uses by 100 to 500%. This aspect of lignin was last week under intensive study by the U.S. Army & Navy...
...State Department issued an acid statement, calling the seizure of St. Pierre & Miquelon by "three so-called Free French ships ... an arbitrary action . . . without the prior knowledge or consent ... of the United States Government...