Word: carbonation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margarine (chemically hardened vegetable oil) is already partly synthetic. It will be simple for chemists to manufacture food fats out of synthetic glycerin and paraffins from petroleum. Starch will be more difficult because plants produce it cheaply, but Rosin is confident that synthetic starch can be made out of carbon monoxide acted upon by sunlight...
...Richfield Oil and General Electric. The 276-ton unit, which the U.P. plans to use on its Los Angeles-Salt Lake City freight run, can deliver 4,800 h.p., more than three diesel units operated together. The U.P. expects maintenance costs to be low because propane burns without leaving carbon-like deposits on the turbine blades, a fault of coal-and oil-driven turbines...
...Science, Biologist Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard tells about recent archaeological studies that have pretty well settled the question. Ancient Indian fish weirs found under Boston's Boylston Street have been excavated and their age determined by carbon 14 dating. One weir proved to be about 4,500 years old. Its position below sea level indicates that the tidal flat on which it was built has sunk about 20 ft. This works out to an average submergence of roughly six inches a century since Massachusetts was occupied by the fish-catching Indians...
Many scientists think that life appeared on earth when the atmosphere, instead of being its present mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, contained methena, ammonia and hydrogen. These ingredients, still to be found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...
...hungry fires of industry, modern man burns nearly 2 billion tons of coal and oil each year. Along with the smoke and soot of commerce, his furnaces belch some 6 billion tons of unseen carbon dioxide into the already tainted air. By conservative estimate, the earth's atmosphere, in the next 127 years, will contain 50% more...