Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago gave his decision on some charred bison bones sent to him by Dr. Elias Howard Sellards of Austin, Texas, who took them from a deposit full of distinctive Folsom artifacts. Dr. Libby measured the radioactivity of the carbon in the remains of the bones' organic material.* His conclusion: the bison died (and was probably cooked and eaten) about 10,000 years ago. Therefore, Folsom Man must have been a bison-chasing Texan at that remote period...
...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...
Milwaukee-born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...
...Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. is the main U.S. commercial supplier of columbium. For months all its production has been going for defense needs...
...Composition of ordinary air by volume: 78.03% nitrogen, 20.98% oxygen, .94% argon, .03% carbon dioxide, .02% other gases...