Word: alkali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion Magnesium Co. have been experimenting with the process for three years. All three will share in the new manufacturing program. So, using this or their own process, will American Metal Co., National Lead Co., Permanente Metals Corp., Dow Chemical (at present the only volume producer of magnesium), Mathieson Alkali Works, others...
That color changes with environment is strikingly illustrated by the varieties of U.S. horned toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...
...rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits, the system failed to work. Another independent worker, Dr. John Henry Quisenberry of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, found that acid and alkali douches worked with rabbits, not with rats...
...West he bullwhacked across the Plains, filled then with fierce bison, fiercer Indians. He got his lungs full of pre-Dust Bowl dust, his system full of alkali water. In Utah he discovered that "in this country you'll find only three seasons-July, August, and winter...
...papermakers Mathieson Alkali has been selling salt cake they used to buy from Germany...