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...cellophane is thoroughly impregnated with a mixture of "diazo" compounds which are closely related to dyes, but are only a faint yellow in color. Wherever light strikes, the diazo compounds are quickly and effectively bleached. Developing and fixing are combined in a single operation (exposure of the film to ammonia fumes), which may be done in subdued daylight. This exposure does not change the portions of the film that light has reached, but the ammonia turns the unexposed diazo compound red (or some other color, depending on the particular compound used). Result is a positive with the image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Photography | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Postponed until the end of the war is development of the newest and most novel method of fertilizing with nitrogen: use of gaseous ammonia (NH3) - a discovery of Shell Chemical Co. The gas is allowed to escape from steel cylinders into irrigation waters, where it dissolves and is carried into every part of California or chards, rice fields, truck farms. These un usual amounts of quickly available nitrogen cause the plants to grow with startling speed. Ever since Shell's cautious introduction of this gaseous fertilizer, growers' demand for it has far exceeded the supply. But now Shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bacteria & War | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Referring to TIME, April 6: You don't mean to say that Author Rex Stout takes sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda internally, do you? We use these substances to fertilize vegetables in our neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...does Mr. Stout. Says he: "Recipe for a good beard: spread on sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda, sprinkle with beer, and rake well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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