Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims at a distance...
...carried a fearsome cargo-eighty 55-gallon drums of carbon disulphide, a poisonous and volatile chemical used as a solvent in making rayon and rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
...odoriferous factories. It is crude, they think, to conceal a bad smell by a stronger, pleasanter odor. A more efficient method is to get rid of the bad smell itself. This can often be done by washing it out of the air with water or absorbing it in activated carbon...
Their machines had ground to a stop because there was no carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...
...Wiping a carbon-black wrist over a sweaty carbon-black brow, another worker said: "This Marshall aid has got my thanks." A third said: "It's given us a breathing space." A plant official echoed: "Marshall aid saved us from catastrophe." He spoke as simply as if he were saying: "Unless I breathe...