Word: benzol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief proved or suspected producing agents, as Hueper lists them: physical agents, such as ultraviolet rays; inorganic substances, such as beryllium and selenium; organic chemicals, e.g., benzol; certain by-products from the process of refining oil shale and petroleum; vegetable products, e.g., betel nuts...
...process was developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...
...years Alice Hamilton has studied the ill effects of industrial poisons (lead in the paint trades, toluene in TNT plants, carbon monoxide in steel mills, benzol in airplane "dopes"), in 1924 published a modern classic, Industrial Poisons in the U.S. She also engaged in many a bitter fight to force her scientific findings on an indifferent public...
...Warner experiments are borne out, the detoxicant mixture may be of great help in industrial poisonings, for it works effectively on lead, benzol (a solvent) and carbon tetrachloride (used in the cleaning industry). For human consumption, the detoxicants are made up in small white pills, which taste like strong, sour orange juice. Physicians are trying them on patients at several large medical schools, for alcoholism, toxemias of pregnancy, arthritis...
...goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration. His gas volume last year hit a ten-year peak; his appliance salesmen outsold Bonneville power appliance salesmen. But for real profits, he needed more income from gas by-products as well (such as briquets, lampblack, benzol, road-surfacing tar). So now he is building the new by-products plant, hopes to boost by-products sales from 25% to 33-50% of gas sales. Even if the new plant does not make money, McKee last week said: "the satisfaction of doing it [in the face of Federal...