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...sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated everywhere with a germicide. Then he discovered that synthetic wetting agents themselves were also powerful germicides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Mixers | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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