Word: alkalis
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...reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...
Psychologists Dispense and Hornbeck could not explain their results but thought that most probably the current had produced chemical changes in the mother rats' hormones. They based this theory on evidence that 1) an electrical current in body fluids produces acid at the anode and alkali at the cathode, 2) douching female rats with acid and alkaline solutions seems to affect their offsprings' intelligence in much the same way as electricity...
Last autumn a U.S. blood expert, Julian Herman Lewis, announced that he had made beef plasma safe by treating it with alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...
...Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. DepartmenUof Agriculture, had taken up the study. Female rabbits and swine were treated with acid or alkali just before breeding. The Bureau's 2,383 young rabbits and 219 pigs were born with no significant change in the normal sex ratio. The Bureau therefore concluded that douche treatments and alteration of the acidity of the semen were without effect...
...cream, where it serves to stabilize the intimate mixture of oil or solids in water and to give a smooth texture. Buttermilk, cakes, icings, candy and even tooth paste are smoothed by a fraction of 1% of algin. It is extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike growth that extends hundreds of feet down to a holdfast attached to the sea bottom...