Word: carbonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antidote for carbon monoxide...
...oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
Major manufacturers of plastic materials -phenol-formaldehyde, Durez, Plaskon, many another-are Bakelite, General Plastics, American Cyanamid Co., Plaskon Co., Celluloid Corp., Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Monsanto Chemical and Union Carbide and Carbon.* These manufacturers do no molding, sell their plastics to other companies to be shaped. The molders, in turn-excepting those like Westinghouse and General Electric, which use the products in their own business-sell their finished plastic products to the toothbrush, automobile, radio manufacturers...
...Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout, 67. For many years Dr. Osterhout taught botany at Harvard. In 1925 he went to the Institute to devote all his time to a study of fundamental life-processes. His special studies have been fertilization in plants, formation of chromosomes, photosynthesis (conversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates by green plants), and osmosis (passage of liquids through membranes...
...There is a momentary pause while water and carbon monoxide combine to form methyl alcohol. As the synthesis proceeds the music turns into a syncopated Cakewalk, the dance of ethyl alcohol. . . . The atoms hesitate, swaying and staggering about, intoxicated by the motions they have discovered. . . . The chemist awakens and rushes to the centre of the stage...