Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge of organic chemistry is necessary for any good scientist, no matter what the field, and especially for medicine. Besides being a necessity, this course holds a certain fascination. It consists mostly in the description and preparation of hundreds of organic (carbon-containing) substances, with formulas sufficiently complex and yet obedient to laws to make excellent puzzle-problems. Working these formulas on paper has indeed been likened to playing with anagrams and cross-word puzzles...
...other main subdivision of organic chemistry, the aromatics, the carbon atoms form a ring. Benzene is the typical aromatic, dyes and drugs important commercial ring products, Germans the greatest experts...
Learning last week got around to honoring Dr. George Oliver Curme Jr., one of U. S. chemistry's great experts, by giving him the Chandler Medal and a salute at Columbia University. Industry long ago crowned him with Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., created expressly by Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. to exploit his discoveries and processes. The industrialists, further, made him vice president, chief chemist and director of research of the chemicals subsidiary...
...Curme's main work has been with aliphatic chemicals, such as fatty acids, hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters, ethers. In those compounds the carbon atoms are arranged like links in an open chain.* Ethane, with two linked carbon atoms, is a simple aliphatic; ethyl alcohol a simple aliphatic derivative. Three years ago Dr. Curme began to manufacture ethyl alcohol synthetically on a large scale. Other profitable work has been with acetylene (for welding, lighting), ethylene glycol (for anti-freeze mixtures), ethylene oxide (insecticide, fumigant). Should he have to, Dr. Curme could probably make a living from the hydrocarbons blowing away...
American Stainless Steel, licensing concern jointly owned by several big independent steel companies, and an alloy-making subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon promptly filed suit for patent infringement. The suit dragged out until last week, cost Rustless Iron nearly $500,000 and considerable business from buyers fearful thatthe company would lose the suit and make them liable for damages. So simple is the Wild process that Rustless Iron can make stainless steel at a substantially lower cost than other patent steels. Bulk of its $1,000,000 sales go to Ford, General Motors, American Rolling Mills, Superior Steel...