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Even better equipment is in the labs. The Navy is working on a magical electrolytic cell containing a sodium sulphate solution. When an electric current passes through it, oxygen bubbles off from one electrode. An acid is formed in the solution at the same electrode, and a caustic accumulates at the other electrode. The caustic can be withdrawn and used to absorb carbon dioxide from the sub's atmosphere. When it is then remixed with the acid from the other electrode, the carbon dioxide separates and can be pumped out of the submarine. What remains is the same sodium...
Last week the novel method was under hopeful study in both the U.S. and faraway Africa. The drug Dr. Sullivan and his colleagues chose was Methotrexate, because it has a handy, harmless and effective antagonist in folinic acid, also known as CF, for citrovorum factor. At Memorial and other hospitals, they have tried the combination on a score of patients with cancer confined to the head, where a high concentration of the drug could be infused through a single artery in the neck. In many cases the cancers shrank rapidly, and one man is disease-free after two courses...
...those who care to try it themselves, the first sentence of Woodward's seven-page description of the synthesis, as reported to the Journal of the American Chemical Society, reads: "2 -(β, β-Dicyanovinyl)-3, 5-dimethyl-4-ethylpyrrole was converted by sulfuryl chloride in acetic acid at 55° to 2-(β, β-dicyanovinyl)-3-methyl-4-ethyl-5-chloromethylpyrrole [m.p. 189-192°], and thence, by condensation with 3-carbethoxy-4-methylpyrrole in hot aqueous etha-nolic hydrochloric acid to 3', 4-dimethyl-3-ethyl-4'-carbethoxy-5-(β, β-dicyanovinyl) dipyrrylmethane...
...metabolic pathways of ordinary iodine. But it has not yet been used in humans. An odd mother-daughter combination is ruthenium-rhodium 106. Long-lived ruthenium 106 gives birth to short-lived rhodium 106, which in turn gives off energetic beta rays. The pair had seemed promising to destroy acid-secreting glands in certain cases of peptic ulcer. But some centers reported they have already quit using it because of excessive danger to technicians handling it. Said Dr. Marshall Brucer, medical chief at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and a veteran in the field...
...three years previous. From Madhya Pradesh Police Inspector-General K. F. Rustomji came the bitter charge that Bhave's criticisms of the police had weakened their morale and heartened the dacoits, with the result that the crime rate in the ravines was on the rise. In acid agreement, the Hindustan Times summed up: "If Bhave's mission was a miracle, it was a synthetic one, for whatever results have been achieved, the price has been disproportionately heavy...