Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burns (instantaneous) on bare legs and arms. If the sailors had worn long pants and sleeves, said the doctors, they might not have been hurt. Three types of treatment were used: 1) dressings soaked in mineral oil and sulfa drugs; 2) bandages dipped in gun tubs filled with tannic acid; 3) tannic-acid jelly. (Plain sulfa powders were discontinued because they caked on wounds.) > Newly made morphine "syrettes," ampules filled with morphine and fitted with sterile hypodermic needles enclosed in glass tubes, were great timesavers. > Since mouth and jaw injuries were rare, Navy dentists took over doctors' first...
...Sulfamic acid, for 60 years a mere laboratory curiosity, is now being produced on an industrial scale and used widely. Du Pont Chemists Martin Eli Cupery and Wallace Emerson Gordon announced that the sulfamates are excellent flameproofing agents for paper and fabric. Ammonium sulfamate sprays will kill ragweed, poison ivy and other noxious plants...
...metallurgy, where they are used to help 1) pickling-or acid-bath cleansing-of cast metals, 2) spreading soldering fluxes, 3) cleaning metal parts before electroplating, 4) wetting ore particles in flotation...
...week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT), onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless...
Reading this "practical anthology of scathing remarks" is somewhat like sampling a vial of concentrated formic acid: only professional scorpions or the very insensitive will care for more than small sips...