Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Lungs. In the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, anatomists making autopsies discovered that some people had black deposits on their lungs. Since many of the bodies were those of miners, the explanation seemed easy. The black stuff was simply carbon breathed in over a period of years as coal dust. When city folk were found with black lungs, the explanation was that the cause was city smoke. Physicians called it "anthracosis." But modern chemistry shows that the black stuff is not carbon. It is a complex "heterocyclic" compound which does many things that carbon does...
Congressmen got a jolt last month from Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. He told them that he had concocted a liquid oxygen-carbon explosive - and named it "Glmite" - similar to the famed German bombs which in Barcelona are supposed to have killed people a quarter-mile away (TIME, March 25). Army and Navy men remained skeptical, but last week both Army and Navy came around; agreed to formulate in writing terms for a scientific test to prove conclusively the effectiveness of Glmite, promised to pay the costs of the experiment...
...LEGRYS Chief Chemist Stackpole Carbon Co. St. Marys...
Present at the hearing were famed Philadelphia Toxicologists Max Trumper and Samuel Tobias Gordy, authors of the first comprehensive medical report of carbon disulfide poisoning ever printed in the U. S. Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...
Yellowish carbon disulfide, with its radish-like stink, is a man-made chemical used to dissolve fats. In the rayon industry it is poured into huge churns to dissolve cotton or wood pulp before the cellulose solution is spun into threads. From the churns rise foul C52 fumes...