Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give one lung such a rest, leaving the other to breathe for both. The surgeon sticks a hollow needle into the pleural cavity of the tubercular lung and lets...
Died. Charles A. Wilson, 45, newly elected President of Pittsburgh Kiwanis Club; in his garage in Pittsburgh, of carbon monoxide poisoning, while members of the club were waiting to inaugurate him to office...
According to H. D. Stebbins '27 who conducted the experiment, the air in Widener is perfectly pure, having a carbon dioxide content of only .06 per cent from one test and .07, the result of a second test...
...might even further discourage taking advantage of our reading facilities. I was determined to clear up this matter and thus prevent an undue falling off of the attendance at the library. I am perfectly content with the results. Since I made two tests and since the percentage content of carbon dioxide varied only .01 per cent, the college will be glad to know that I feel myself justified in pronouncing the atmosphere at Widener perfectly safe, recognizing, of course, the fact that no tests are infallible...
Wood Alcohol. Ages ago coal was, of course, living wood, and now, like wood, it is being converted into methyl (wood) alcohol. General Georges Patart of France makes this alcohol by heating soft coal until carbon monoxide and hydrogen result. To these gases he adds oxygen to form an organic product. Then, with this synthetic compound on hand he can create formaldehyde (essential for the synthetic resins like Bakelite) or the more complicated alcohols (as isobutyl and amyl, useful in making varnishes...