Word: agar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jelly disintegrated. Water separated from it into a little pool leaving behind a light, glistening mass like delicate tissue-paper flowers. The mountaineer, who was a bit of a scientist, heated the residue in water, saw it resume its normal form, laid the foundations for the great agar-agar industry of Japan. The fundamental process has not changed since the mountaineer's discovery...
Last week, George Ross Robertson, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, reported to the American Chemical Society that California financiers and scientists are developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...