Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class with, though not of the quality of Ah Wilderness, Gentle Julia is a pleasing collection of minor small-town episodes, pre-War style, deriving flavor from the acid presence of 10-year-old Miss Withers. Good shot: Florence Atwater eating a banana royal...
Explosive from Corn, Professor Edward Bartow, president of the American Chemical Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn...
...fundamental effect of fever, Dr. Fishberg found, is alkalosis, caused by loss of acidic substances (chloride, lactic acid, carbon dioxide) from the body. The acid loss occurs through the skin and lungs as the body automatically struggles to cool off to normal temperature. During a five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin...
...years Biochemist William Gumming Rose and his associates at University of Illinois have fed artificially-made food to white rats. Of the ingredients in natural food only the proteins furnish nitrogen available for tissue building. Chemists have broken down the proteins into more than 20 simpler compounds called amino acids. Dr. Rose accordingly prepared and purified all the amino acids he knew of, fed them to baby rats together with synthetic carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta -hydroxybutyric...
...Paris Mlle Jeanne Levy explained to the French Academy of Sciences why bicarbonate of soda helps hangover sufferers. Her experiments on alcoholized rats persuaded her that it was not a matter of acid-alkali balance. The carbonated rats breathed faster than normally, and rapid, deep breathing is known to pass alcohol quickly out of the body by way of the lungs...