Word: borax
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...Mojave Desert, Kern County, Calif., a kernite* mine has been discovered which will revolutionize the borax industry, according to Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller of the U. S. Geological Survey. When washed and recrystallized, kermite is ready for market as pure sodium borate. All previous processes of manufacturing borax have been costly, complicated, unsatisfactory. Italy has condensed volcanic steam containing boric acid to get it; Chile has refined and purified ulexite at great expense; the U. S. has mined borax from mineral deposits around Death Valley, a process dangerous and difficult; or has manufactured it from brine, a method in excellent...
...your beef is "embalmed," if there is alum in your bread, if your pickles are deleterious, if there is caffein in your bottled beverages, then the President will have ignored the admonition of "Old Borax." Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, longtime (1883-1912) chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, known as "Old Borax," called at the White House last week. He called because he believed that the provisions of the Pure Food and Drug Act, drawn under his supervision, had been weakened by the administrative orders of successive Secretaries of Agriculture ever since 1907. He brought evidence demanding changes...
...Health Ministry has all but adopted new health regulations prohibiting the preservation of hams and bacon by the use of borax. This regulation follows a similar one already in force in the U. S. But it will cost the U. S. packers shipping to Britain almost $4,000,000 a year, since henceforward U. S. meats must be shipped in cold storage the year round, instead of only in summer...
...Honorary President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items...
...Zinc, borax, and bismuth, H, O plus...