Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the "synthesis gas" used in converting coal to gasoline or diesel...
...know that the nonvolatile compounds in food are tasted; the volatile ones are both tasted and smelled. But why they taste or smell the way they do is still unknown. The chemical characteristics of a compound may have little to do with its taste. Cane sugar (sucrose) contains only carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, but it tastes much like saccharin, whose quite different molecule has nitrogen and sulphur atoms...
True to expectations, the new Tiger courts were fast. The contest was almost a carbon copy reversal of last years match when Harvard won, 5-4. Henry Foster, number one man for the Crimson, produced the only victory in the top three matches of the contest. The varsity squad meets MIT today...
...brain, said Professor McCulloch, is made up of neurons (nerve cells) which are nothing more nor less than small electrical relays, each containing its own built-in power supply. The cells burn sugar to carbon dioxide and water, and use the energy produced to keep their outer surfaces electrically charged in relation to their interiors. The electrical tension (voltage) between the two parts is about seven-hundredths of a volt...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...