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Word: carbonized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Wilhelm Karl Rothemund explained that grass is green because out of water and the chemicals of earth it, like all plants, manufactures a colorless substance called proto-chlorophyll. Proto-chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Grass is Green? | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Grass is Green? | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...Inventor Charles Jacob Young, shy son of famed Owen D., expounded his facsimile radio, lately come into practical use. It transmits carbon copies of almost anything through the air.* Young Mr. Young works for RCA-Victor of Camden, N. J., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, and although his father was until lately board chairman of the parent company, Son Charles is a self-made scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laytex After Lastex | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...transmitter, a photograph, drawing or message is scanned photoelectrically as in television. Lights and shadows are converted by the scanner into electric impulses, which, at the receiving end, control a stylus under which a roll of carbon-backed paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laytex After Lastex | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide. Aboard the Terminal last week this fantastic diving suit was called "Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold at Hell Gate | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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