Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
Midgley's refrigerant, a combination of fluorine, chlorine, carbon, was developed in a General Motors laboratory with the aid of Dr. A. L. Henne, Belgian chemist...
...process devised by John Woods Beckman, Oakland, Calif., industrial chemist, proves commercially practicable, people will have tiny "bugs" to thank for their soap, salad oil, synthetic hot dogs,* margarin, shortening and such commercial products as Mazola, Wesson Oil, Snowdrift, Crisco, Nuco Butter...
Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...
...reassure a timid patron, one of the clerks brandished a copy of TIME, pointing to the paragraph which quoted a chemist's report that one sample from the shop contained 45% alcohol, was nonpoisonous...