Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, stockholders of big Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. considered an "incentive" plan for executives. Under the plan, officers and key employes would be permitted to buy up to 464,000 shares of company stock at 25% below its market value, now $124, and pay for it with money borrowed from the company. By selling the stock, executives could get a quick bonus of nearly $12 million...
...tracers" Seaborg meant radioactive tags attached to chemical elements. Radioactive carbon, for instance, follows ordinary carbon through the most complicated chemical reactions, and its progress can be traced by its radioactive effects. Thus if an infinitesimal part of the carbon in sugar is made radioactive and fed to a human being, physiologists can follow it through the digestive tract, into the blood, the muscles, and out through the lungs as carbon dioxide...
...dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals of delicate silver lines...