Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PREMIUM-gasoline competition is getting hotter. The Texas Co. is putting on the market Top Octane Sky Chief Super-Charged, which it claims will increase efficiency, cut down carbon deposits and extend engine life as much as 60% through use of a special compound (Petrox...
What Future? Quiz show thinking has become so threadbare that the newest of the shows, ABC's Who's the Boss?, is virtually a carbon copy of the four-year-old What's My Line? In this program panelists are faced with the problem of guessing, not what the contestant (a private secretary) does, but what her boss does...
...Billion Dollar Club" got a new corporate member last week. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., whose 1953 gross soared to $1,025,833,041, up 7% over 1952, became the 33rd U.S. corporation to rack up sales of more than $1 billion. One reason for the rise: Union Carbide's rapid expansion in the production of plastics...
...sample containing Carbon 14 (perhaps from a Sumerian tomb) is dissolved in a hydrocarbon fluid in a 4-in. tube. Radiation from its unstable atoms makes the liquid give flashes of light. They are too faint for human eyes to see, but photomultiplier tubes pick them up. The whole system is immersed in liquid mercury. As a further safeguard, the counting apparatus is adjusted so that it ignores all flashes of light too weak or too strong to come from Carbon...
...Arnold's apparatus should extend the "Carbon 14 calendar" back from 23,000 to 42,000 B.C. and spot, within 37 years, the date, for instance, when slope-browed Neanderthal men roasted a wooly rhinoceros...