Word: cadmium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confiscated by Manhattan agents of the Food and Drug Administration this week was a load of 30,000 aluminum-cased lipsticks, sent to the U. S. by the swank Parisian parfumerie, Guerlain, Inc. They charged: for coloring, the lipsticks contained cadmium and selenium, poisonous chemicals banned in U. S. cosmetics...
...Cadmium, an element of the zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...
...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...Deep within an unshakable vault, where temperature and air pressure is constant, lies the master measuring stick of the U. S., a platinum bar one metre long. Bureau men know that it is one metre long because they measured with an eternal, invariable standard, the red light waves of cadmium...
...international basis of scientific measurement is an iridio-platinum bar cut by two scratches one metre apart, preserved, guarded carefully at Paris, but subject some day to possible destruction. Dr. Michelson measured the bar against the wavelength of red cadmium light, forever unchangeable...