Word: alum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that John Winthrop the Younger, son of Massachusetts' second Governor, returned from a visit to England as the first Governor of Connecticut, with a commission from Lords Saye and Brook empowering him to develop the production of salt, iron, glass, potash, tar, black lead, saltpetre, medicines, copper, alum...
Then in Leyden, Professor W. J. de Haas turned to another magnetic com- pound, containing potassium, chromium, alum. Last week he revealed that he had taken a huge bite from the tiny distance remaining. His compound was .0002° C. above Absolute Zero...
...that Bank of the Manhattan Co. was founded 136 years ago to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." Not so well known is the fact that Manhattan's $575,000,000 Chemical Bank & Trust was originally chartered 112 years ago to manufacture "blue vitriol, alum, alcohol, tartar emetic, refined camphor, borax, copperas, drugs, medicines, paints and dyers' colors." Like its elder rival, Chemical got into banking by opening an office of ''Discount & Deposit...
...Izmid, seized a trowel, laid the cornerstone of a paper factory designed to produce 35 tons of newsprint per day, or almost one-half of Turkey's present consumption. "Most of the raw materials," cried General Ismet, "we shall obtain locally, such as wood pulp, kaolin, resin and alum...
...water goes through a "haircatcher" which removes any lint from bathing suits or any similar material which has remained in the water. After this, it is heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It then runs through two coagulant pots, one of soda ash and the other of alum, which prevent undue acidity. The main work of filtration is done by 27 tons of special graded Cape May, New Jersey, fine sand, through which the water seeps. Before entering the pool again, the water is impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color and which disinfects the water while...