Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain salt water. At the end of 24 hours the worms in the heated juice and the salt water were "very lively and active." But those in the fresh pineapple juice were "completely digested" (dead). Reason: fresh pineapple juice contains an enzyme, or ferment, which acts like a corrosive acid on worms. No worm-killer is canned pineapple juice, said the scientists, for the boiling necessary to preserve the juice destroys the anthelmintic enzyme...
...When four years old, the future Premier lost the use of his left eye when his clumsy nurse, thinking she was administering eye drops, poured acid into it, caused him to wear an opaque monocle for most of his life...
...newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory" once was, chemists will probably continue in their alphabetical way until they bump into...
...paper explained that blue crab canning has heretofore been impracticable because the crabs have unstable protein molecules, which, in the heat required for canning, release copper, cause blue copper oxide to form. By dipping the meat in a solution of sodium chloride, lactic acid and aluminum salts, the new process seals the copper into the crab proteins...
...Paris-found sense of style, John O'Hara ranks with them as a first-class, far from phoney reporter. Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading. Probably most worth reading are his acid short stories...