Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served in sterilized bowls. Biggest risk is high fox mortality. In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have their sick list down to about 5%. Foxes are killed, prior to skinning, by injecting into their nostrils a quarter-ounce of carbon tetrachloride...
Gauley Bridge is a disheveled village on the forest-fringed New River of central West Virginia. There six years ago, a construction company named Rinehart & Dennis began to excavate a three-mile waterpower tunnel for a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Last week Rinehart & Dennis were putting in last licks on their tunnel. But many a man who began the digging in 1929 was not alive to see the finish in 1936. Some had died of silicosis, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Pneumonia and tuberculosis had caused the deaths of others...
Union Carbide & Carbon, dragged into the Gauley Bridge affair by its toes, declared that it was "very proud of its safety record everywhere." President P. H. Faulconer of Rinehart & Dennis asserted that "every known device to protect the workers was used and that reports of deaths were grossly exaggerated...
...chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water, gives rise to urea and other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule with a molecular weight of several million units. In most...
...Riddle asserted that it was high time for science to carry evolution back not only to primordial organisms, but to their natural production from wholly inanimate substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present on earth a billion years ago. The gap between such naturally generated substances and the half-alive tobacco mosaic virus may be almost no gap at all. Other highlights of the St. Louis meeting...