Word: aerosolled
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...discovery was accidental. Dr. Robertson and his colleagues were trying out another possible germicide-a detergent or "soapless soap" (similar to Dreft, Aerosol and other products widely sold for household and industrial use). Water solutions of the detergent were only mildly effective, so the researchers tried solutions of detergents in propylene glycol, which is a sort of thin glycerine. Results were much better. Then the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would-within a few seconds-kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci...
...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...