Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Friedrich Woehler a hundred years ago accidentally manufactured urea, scientists have synthesized more things than exist naturally in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Carbon is the base of most of these new products. As diamond it is the most precious natural substance, as coal the most valuable. Carbon plus oxygen gives carbon monoxide, whence grows a myriad of compounds; carbon plus hydrogen gives methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives...
...demand. One is to cut down the supply. The other is to increase the demand. At the paternal Sugar Institute, last week, plans were on foot to assemble an army of researchers. To their official attention had been called a fact and a question. The fact : Sugar, a hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar are in the manufacture of shoe polish, soap, explosives, fuel, essential...
Misbehavior is less on calm days than on windy, because when weather is calm the air contains an excess of carbon dioxide, which lessens vitality...
...Newark, Dr. Abraham Friedland, a foolish dentist, sat in his garage until he was overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Attracted by the cries of his secretary, policemen, passing in a car, drove in but they were too ignorant to be of any help. With them in their car the policemen had two captured thieves who, straining in their handcuffs to do a good deed, pumped and wiggled the doctor until he began to breathe again...
...with the farmer to decide whether it is more profitable to sell his waste products in bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy mycelia develop. Dr. H. T. Herrick of the U. S. Department of Agriculture explained the disciplining...