Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wood Alcohol. German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...
...late hour last night Mr. William H. Geer, director of Physical Education in the University was still lying unconscious more than 85 hours after having been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas which he inhaled in his garage on Friday morning...
...Geer's injury occurred on Friday morning when he was asphyxiated in his closed garage by the carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust of his automobile. After being overcome, he lay for about three quarters of an hour before he was discovered by his son and taken to the hospital...
...early--hour this morning Mr. William H. Geer, director of the Department of Physical Education in the University, was still unconscious more than 60 hours after having been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas which he inhaled on Friday morning. The accident occurred while Mr. Geer was starting his car in a garage in which the doors were closed. After being overcome, he lay for 45 minutes before he was discovered by his son and transported to the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...Bailey, Medical Advisor to the University, declared last night when questioned as to the nature of monoxide gas poisoning. "Monoxide poisoning is of a very dangerous nature. Frequently we hear of death resulting from persons inhaling carbon monoxide in the same manner in which, as I understand it, M. Geer was overcome...