Word: acidity
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...about to have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, Minn, is turning out a whole litter of "fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that chemists have synthesized...
...benefit of the proposed "acid test" would result, said Harrington, "in a clarification of our thinking and the thinking of the Harvard community...
...Ford's office is a nest of papers, topped by the model of a foot--all that was found after a European madman had dissolved an unknown number of people in a vat of sulphuric acid. In addition to being chief of the Legal Medicine Department; he is on the National Committee that drew up plans for a model lego-medical investigation system for states and large cities...
Spirit of '76. Like many another drug producer, Pfizer has been completely transformed by antibiotics. The 102-year-old company, founded by German immigrants, was a small but successful chemical producer specializing in making citric acid by fermentation. When, in 1941, the Government asked Pfizer, Merck & Co., and E. R. Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate...
...mixture and pick out the scraps fit for human consumption. He rejects such gimmicks as the mental "file clerk," invented by Hubbard to chase about in the mind in search of mislaid impressions, and scoffs at the Hubbardians' "Guk" program. "Guk" was a mixture of vitamins and glutamic acid which was supposed to make dianetics subjects "run better...