Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictum that the Pope must not be ill. When Cardinal Salotti dared to suggest, last year, that the Pope take a rest, "The Pontiff stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs: "Do not be so engrossed about my lameness. . . . God and myself take that responsibility...
...would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece of stone, reflected afterward that if the stone were bitten away with acid around the wax he could ink it and get an impression...
...Institute for Plant Research investigators had been observing the effect on plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide. These effects in some ways were similar to those produced by the plant hormones. Eastman Kodak Co. was selling a near chemical kin of heteroauxin-indole-3n-propionic acid. The Boyce Thompson chemist thought he might be able to convert one to the other. Before he started, however, Drs. P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock tried out the indole-3n-propionic acid itself. To their unbounded delight, it produced nearly the same phenomena as a plant hormone. Promptly...
...this instance, the lag of commercial exploitation behind laboratory research was remarkably short. Indolebutyric acid, one of the Boyce Thompson stimulants, has already been placed on the market by several manufacturers as a root stimulator for cuttings. Merck Chemical Co. sells it as "Hormodin A" at a price of $2 for 15 cubic centimetres, which, diluted upwards of 6,000 times, is enough for about 1,500 cuttings. Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. markets it under the name of "Auxilin" at a price of $1 per half ounce. The prospect is that in ten years the nurseryman who neglects to stimulate...
Columbia set out to discover what happens in the body to benzoic acid, a nitrogen compound used as a food preservative. In the test acid he substituted heavy nitrogen for ordinary nitrogen. Feeding it to laboratory animals, he found that about 70% of the acid passed through the walls of the intestine combined with glycine and was eliminated by the kidneys...