Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
...world's No. 1 rayon maker, vast, British-owned American Viscose Corp., this week admitted what the trade had recently rumored: its new synthetic fiber-Vinyon-is now being produced in small quantities, already being sold in a few forms. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. makes the raw resin powder and Viscose turns it into yarn. This year's probable production...
...excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
...GARDENIAS-Jonathan Latimer-Crime Club ($2). Bill Crane goes on the wagon long enough to solve the mysterious decimation of the March family by carbon monoxide poisoning. Supplementary kidnappings and felonious assaults guarantee no dull moments in this typical Latimer toughie...
...heavy carbon apparatus is a tall glass cylinder with glass spirals inside. Heavy carbon can be separated from light carbon because it dissolves in hydrogen cyanide and sodium cyanide at slightly different rates. When sodium cyanide in water solution runs down the spiral and hydrogen cyanide as a gas flows upward, heavy carbon collects at the top of the apparatus. There were no leaks and the canaries warbled serenely...