Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pantothenic Acid apparently is a common ingredient of all living stuff. Professor Roger John Williams (Oregon State Agricultural College), who discovered the substance with his associate Carl M. Lyman, has found it in humans, worms, oysters, plant molds, bacteria and algae. Declared they: "It is probably safe to say that it is more widely distributed in Nature than any known physiologically potent substance." Data so far accumulated indicates that pantothenic acid's molecule is composed of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, that it contains no sulphur or nitrogen. The stuff is potent. A speck of Professor Williams...
...Acid for Wine. An expert chemist's advice for aging wine rapidly: "All young wine contains cream of tartar and tartaric acid. It usually requires several years of aging for the precipitation of excess tartar during the process of fermentation, and after the conclusion thereof. ... By addition of calcium malate in proper proportions to wine, even when young, and agitating it for a short time, any proportion of tartaric acid desired can be removed, leaving the malic acid to replace the natural constituent of grapes...
...process is feasible because synthetic chemistry has cheapened the manufacture of malic acid, the substance which gives apples their flavor. Dr. Charles Raymond Downs, Manhattan consulting chemist who presented the wine-aging idea, passes a mixture of air and benzene over a catalyst to get maleic acid. Other action turns the maleic to malic acid, which combines with calcium to form the desired calcium malate...
Another product made from maleic acid is Succinic Acid, which occurs naturally in amber. A compound of succinic acid,, succinyl-chlorimide, has been found to be a thoroughgoing purifier of water. A six-milligram speck of succinyl-chlorimide, reported Dr. Downs, disinfects a canteen of water in a few minutes...
...Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong to the company. Bruised and burned with acid, the victim still clutches a corsage of orchids attached to which is a note in German threatening, of all people, the girl whose scream discovered...