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...Ernest Lee Jackson, the other to Ralph W. Peakes and Joseph S. Reichert. All three men developed their processes when they worked for the War Department, originally filed for the patents in 1929. Both patents are based on the same discovery -that wool becomes unshrinkable when soaked in tertiary amyl or butyl hypochlorite, chemicals related to bleaching powder. After a half-hour's soaking in this solution, heated to 104° F., the wool absorbs 1½% of chlorine. It can then be washed in hot or cold water without shrinking...
...drugs which Dr. Brooks prefers in attacks of angina pectoris are amyl nitrate or nitroglycerin. He also uses chloral hydrate, paraldehyde and barbiturates...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
...will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial alcohol, with more than 400 separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid of the undertaker, is one of the necessities of modern existence. Into each life some industrial alcohol must fall. Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl. There are three general kinds of alcohol-ethyl, methyl and amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous...
...this alcohol by heating soft coal until carbon monoxide and hydrogen result. To these gases he adds oxygen to form an organic product. Then, with this synthetic compound on hand he can create formaldehyde (essential for the synthetic resins like Bakelite) or the more complicated alcohols (as isobutyl and amyl, useful in making varnishes...