Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green plants take water, carbon dioxide (from the air) and energy (from light), transform them with the help of chlorophyll into carbohydrates and free oxygen. The chemical form for this reaction...
...Most surprising radio-botanical find: chlorophyll in green plants continues to assimilate and reduce carbon dioxide from the air on a "small but measurable" scale, even in complete absence of light. This lightless "photosynthesis" demands that biochemists radically revise their theories about what is the most important chemical reaction on earth...
...willing but inept stooge, Quisling's blurred carbon copy of the Nazi Party, the Nasjonal Samling has done its best to rule Norway by typical steel-and-sugar Nazi methods: the threat of terrorism, the promise that Norway would be ruled by Norwegians. Both have failed. Party rallies have led to more riots than enthusiasm, and a running undercurrent of sabotage, noncooperation, attacks on Nazis and spying by free-minded Norwegians has done much to undermine the morale of German troops stationed there...
...limited degree, animals have the power, hitherto believed unique in plants, of making starch and sugar foods out of carbon dioxide and water. This startling news was announced last week in Chicago by Harvard Biochemist Albert Baird Hastings, Birgit Vennesland and co-workers at a meeting of the American Societies for Experimental Biology...
...mildly radioactive substances as food. These can be traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...