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...liniment flopped. A new shaving cream, a brushless one concocted by a company chemist, did little better, until Allan got his big idea. One day in 1926, he climbed into his car, drove out into the country near Minneapolis, posted signs so spaced and inscribed that a speeding motorist could read as he rode...
...Astronomy major must be a composite chemist-physicist-mathematician. Since he is required to get a basic knowledge of physics and mathematics in, addition to Astronomy, the more he knows about these subjects before he starts in, the better...
...kept his room jammed with chemical equipment, showed little interest in anything else. They guessed that his knowledge of chemistry was self-taught-M.I.T. had no record of him. But he should have been familiar with perchloric acid's dangerous characteristics-he had worked as a chemist at Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel plant and for the Douglas Aircraft...
...able to locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...
Modern Hunt. Since the supply of musk has never met the demand, perfumers have always looked for substitutes. They discovered that many animals have musky-smelling lure glands. Beaver glands yield castor, which is widely used. So is loud-smelling civet. Perfume chemists once eyed skunks, encouraged by the fact that many people do not mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance...