Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee last week Dr. Donald Breckinridge Wells of Hartford, Conn., told how deformities like Doris Johnson's might be prevented. Let severely burned or scalded people be plumped into a tub of tannic acid solution,* he advised, and be given quantities of liquids to drink. The drink balances the water lost from the system on account of the burning, while the astringent tannic acid relieves pain, toughens the body surface and loosens burned tissue. While the victim is in the bath, several attendants busily remove loosened, burned tissue and wash unharmed skin with soap and water. This procedure...
...Polytechnic Institute has found that in a large percentage of deaths, burning clothes supplied the deadly fumes. This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
University of Michigan's Cornelia Burwell synthesized Germicidal Fatty Acid Salts from petroleum...
Sugar Uses. Financed by the Sugar Institute, Gerald Judy Cox and Maryl L. Dodds of the Mellon Institute found new uses for cane sugar. With sugar, hydrochloric acid and a variety of alcohols they have produced sweet-smelling liquids which might be used in perfumes and which can dissolve materials used in lacquers...
...picture films and medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...