Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British aviator was given the classic burn treatment: first a scrubbing under anesthesia, then applications of tannic acid (found in tea, bark, coffee, etc.). One day a noted surgeon visited him, ordered the tannic-acid treatment stopped at once. But it was too late. "This is what tannic acid does," said the lieutenant last week, holding up his glazed hands, permanently puckered into half-closed fists...
Although it has been used for burns for hundreds of years, tannic acid may do more harm than good. For: 1) it forms a thick, hard crust, under which germs flourish; 2) it kills delicate new skin cells. The British are now turning away from tannic acid, to other methods-among them, the triple dye treatment of Dr. Aldrich...
Most of the big flour mills and bakers have recently agreed to put vitamin B1; nicotinic acid and iron back into their flour and bread. But experts last week pointed out that such "enriched bread," although a step forward, was not the ideal solution of the problem...
...manufacturers last week agreed to drop mercury from the process of making felt hats. A substitute, hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid, will be used. Thus ends one of the oldest industrial hazards, which still causes dangerous nerve disorders among 10% of 22,000 U.S. hat workers. The agreement will soon be sent to various State Legislatures for enactment into...
...Bindery's work is not limited to bookbinding alone. Under the direction of Fiske, who became manager, the Bindery has made extensive tests in such fields as the acid content of paper, flexible vs. hard glue, and particularly the tanning of book leathers. Some of these tests have doubtless been of great value to the bookbinding industry in general...