Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gordon M. Kline of the U. S. Bureau of Standards told the American Chemical Society that aviation's fire hazard could be conquered by a new kind of airplane "dope" which is noncombustible even when covered with burning gasoline. Content of the new "dope": cellulose acetate, boric acid, borax. Significance: possible revival of fabric instead of all-metal construction...
...from the same current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
High-Test. By using phosphoric acid as a catalyst, Dr. Vladimir N. Ipatieff of Chicago obtained from ethylene, propylene and other by-product gases a motor fuel which he said last week increased the speed of an Army airplane by 35 m. p. h. Best available high-test gasolines have an "octane rating" of 76. Dr. Ipatieff believed himself well on the way to a 100-octane motor fuel, great goal of petroleum chemists...
Last week Dr. Adalbert G. Bettman of the University of Oregon reported a further effective treatment of severe burns and scalds. He gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
...Bettman, only specialist in plastic surgery in the Pacific Northwest, got the idea of combining tannic acid and silver nitrate for burns from his procedure for removing tattoo marks. To remove tattoos he injects tannic acid and silver nitrate solutions with a tattooing machine over the original marks. At once a black coagulum forms. The leathery surface, with the design dimly visible, peels off in a few days...