Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts, and prevented his blood oxygenating itself. He was blue because he was cyanosed. (This is an occasional accident of dyed shoes...
Last week Frank Travia was acquitted. Chemical analysis had show.n the woman's brain to be saturated with alcohol, her blood with more than enough carbon monoxide to cause her death. To the jury box, Mr. Travia's smiling young lawyer rushed, shook hands all around. He, Alfred E. Smith Jr.,* son of New York's famed Governor, Alfred E. Smith, had won his spurs in his first murder case. Democrats who hope to see Governor Smith installed in the White House, saw in his son's success a new and good omen. For most...
...ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions. The late Clifford M. Holland won a mighty memorial by devising a system of four stations, operating 84 huge fans, to send currents of fresh air into the base of the tubes, on each side, through chutes...
Secretary D. H. Killeffer of the New York section of the American Chemical Society last week helped the lay public to catch up with a notable advance in commercial refrigeration. He described the properties and uses of "dry ice," as this commercial solid carbon dioxide is called from the fact that it forms a gas instead of a liquid when it melts. U. S. manufacturers, said Secretary Killeffer, had now perfected "dry ice," a practical portable refrigerant, and brought it into wide use. For shipping ice cream it was 1500% more efficient than water ice. Between Manhattan and Philadelphia...
Credit for the perfection of "dry ice" belongs largely to Chemist Pierre E. Haynes, now with the Dry Ice Corp. of New York. General Carbonic and Liquid Carbonic are other corporations now making "safe dry," a form of "dry ice," which became a commercial product in 1925. To make solid carbon dioxide: invert a tank of liquid carbon dioxide under pressure, open the valve. The sudden lessening of the pressure causes the liquid as it squirts out to turn part cold solid, part...