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...their lowest point in more than three years. Many technicians, moreover, are leery about the uncertainties of defense work and sometimes will take pay cuts in return for steadier employment. "A starch manufacturer," says Bob Snelling, "wouldn't have half the trouble getting a microbiologist or a chemist that a defense contractor would...
...Chemist S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works explained that the strange "photochromic" glass, which he had invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from...
...British Petroleum. Where coal-based chemical plants once belched out dark and noisome fumes, modern petrochemical factories now cleanly crack oil into hundreds of new chemicals. A company called Chemische Werke Hüls has built the Ruhr's biggest synthetic rubber plant, and Mulheim's Chemist Karl Ziegler last year won a Nobel Prize for developing methods to produce plastics from...
...Some say "bar-bit-yourates" and others "barbi-tyoo-rates"; both are right according to medical and lay dictionaries. How the drug family got its name is also a fielder's choice. Some say that German Chemist Adolf Baeyer named barbiturates for St. Barbara, on whose day in 1862 he first extracted the drug in pure form. But medical historians think it was named for a waitress in Munich who contributed urine samples for the research. Others say it was a waitress named Barbara all right, and Baeyer got the samples easily because she was his mistress...
...these confirmed reports are unusually convincing. They also tend to bear out 1961 sightings by Russian Astronomer Nikolai Kozyrev. Dr. Hall believes that the fierce heat of returning sunlight may have released gases from the lunar interior. At a Dallas conference on newly discovered astronomical objects last week, Nobel Chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested that the gas may have contained carbon in the form of two-atom molecules that cannot exist on earth. If further evidence proves that the spots really do exist and are indeed caused by eruptions of gas from the moon's interior, they will present...