Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixture of German, Dutch & English. It is a potpourri of plattdeutsch, high German, English and contains many colloquialisms, the origins of which are difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Dutch dialects and word usages differ considerably even in the five principal Pennsylvania Dutch counties: York, Bucks, Lehigh, Berks and Carbon...
Last winter Chemist Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute appeared at Atlantic City where the Association for the Advancement of Science was holding its annual meeting, and informed the whole scientific world 1) that a virus was a huge molecule composed basically of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, weighing 17,000,000 times as-much as a hydrogen molecule, and measuring one seven-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter; 2) that he had crystallized a typical virus (which causes mosaic diseases in tobacco plants) by chemical treatment; 3) that he had modified the virus molecule chemically and produced...
...Terre Haute, Ind. in the 1870s one Jacob Baur ran a drugstore. When he needed soda water for his fountain, he would put some marble dust in a bottle, add sulphuric acid, capture the escaping carbon dioxide gas and pass it under pressure through water. In spare moments Jacob Baur worked on a machine to make carbonated water commercially. Soon he perfected the "coke" method now in use everywhere.* Raising $75,000, Druggist Baur went to Chicago, started the predecessor of Liquid Carbonic Corp. on Illinois Street just north of the Chicago River in 1888. For ten years he manufactured...
...colorless, odorless, nontoxic, non-inflammable gas one and one-half times heavier than air, carbon dioxide (CO2) was first obtained in liquid form by Faraday in 1834, first sold commercially in 1888. In 1899 annual U. S. production was some 12,000,000 lb. Today more than 300,000,000 lb. are sold yearly and Liquid Carbonic Corp. handles most of it. Made in 36 plants in the U. S. and Canada, its gas is delivered to 10,000 U. S. beverage bottlers in 400,000 steel cylinders. There is a steadily widening use for liquid carbonic in asbestos composition...
...Burned under a steam boiler, coke, coal or natural gas produces flue gases which are largely carbon dioxide. These are purified, piped into steel cylinders weighing 20 to 50 lb. Under pressure of 1,400 lb. per sq. in., the gas liquefies, forms the product known as liquid carbonic...