Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse than Limburger cheese. Able students were odoriferously rewarded. The jar from which they drew their papers had been fragrantly scented with attar of roses...
...Babcock forbids the use of formalin, carbolic acid or lysol in dressing wounds because they retard healing. He recommends weak wet dressings of bichloride of mercury or iodine, bromine (for fetid wounds), and aluminum acetate (for raw skin...
...Portland, Ore. boy of 9 and a girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...
...four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower was a former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed it, but with bad scholarship dubbed it "The Wooden Horse." * After more than an hour...
...should be a comfort to common soldiers and civilians, if not to military strategists, that the most poisonous gases in the laboratory, the systemic toxic agents, are of little use in war. Hydrocyanic acid, now used to execute criminals in closed chambers, is so volatile in open air that it tends to disperse harmlessly. The French started using hydrocyanic acid in 1916 and put over 4,000 tons. Casualties were practically...