Word: chemists
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...inexpensive and environmentally harmless rust inhibitor (under patent by chemist J. Anthony von Fraunhofer...
DIED. RAY MCINTIRE, 77, Dow chemist who inadvertently invented Styrofoam in a 1944 experiment; in Midland, Michigan...
...does the body digest and absorb triglycerides but not a sucrose polyester such as olestra? Both types of molecule, explains P&G chemist Ron Janacek, are too large to pass unaltered through the mucous membrane of the small intestine and into the bloodstream. With triglycerides, an intestinal enzyme known as lipase acts as a kind of molecular scissors, fitting into slots between the fatty acids and snipping them apart. But when there are too many fatty acids clumped too close together, as happens with olestra and other types of sucrose polyester, these slots are concealed and the enzyme cannot...
...also initiated scientific research into chemical composition of materials, founding the Straus Conservation Center in 1928 with the help of a staff chemist. Their methods of teaching conservation became the model all, over the country and inspired later directors to found a program for the teaching of such techniques. Straus continues to be one of the most important such centers in America, garnering contracts from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and attention from abroad. The Center is currently undergoing renovation and expansion, including a full climate-control system...
...split into groups to produce conventional arms, chemical weapons, biological weapons and drugs. The least successful initiative was germ research, even though Aum sent a medical team to Zaire in 1992 following mistaken reports of an outbreak of Ebola. The most successful was the sarin production unit. Chief chemist Masaya Tsuchiya, 30, told police that he concocted a total of 25 kg of sarin between November 1993 and the Tokyo attack. Details are fragmentary. Incomplete cult memos have been confiscated suggesting that Aum wanted to buy lasers, fighter jets and tanks. No police report has fully explained the March subway...