Word: carbonates
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Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
When the Government started its suit, Alcoa had in fact no competition in the U.S. But defense needs and RFC loans have since put one competitor, Reynolds Metals, into the aluminum business, with three more-Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum, Union Carbide & Carbon-on the point of joining the fray if Jesse Jones's Defense Plant Corp. ever gets around to signing the papers. Nevertheless the Government will appeal Judge Caffey's decision to the Supreme Court...
Died. Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, 43, eminent biochemist; a suicide by poison; in Yonkers, N.Y. With the aid of heavy hydrogen and heavy carbon he pioneered in tracing the uses living bodies make of the constituents of food...
...Eichelberger insisted that the site was fine for alunite-aluminum production, was not feasible if bauxite-aluminum production (whose carbon furnaces require deep pits) was planned. The fact that Alcoa was to build his plant was news to him. If OPM was not giving him the runaround, it was certainly giving him the silent treatment...
Alcoa's new plants will relieve but not end the aluminum shortage. Still uncontracted for is the rest of the expansion program announced by OPM shortly after the Senate investigation: four plants aggregating 260,000,000 lb. capacity to be operated by Reynolds, Bohn Aluminum & Brass, Union Carbide & Carbon, Olin Corp. Present capacity plus the new Alcoa expansions totals 1,200,000,000 lb. a year. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...