Word: chitinous
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Lobster Silk. The U. S. Department of Commerce received a report that one Dr. G. Kunike had been saving lobster and crab shells, bringing the chitin or bony structure thereof into colloidal solution, passing it through a filter press and drawing it out into artificial silk threads of greater tensile strength than the cellulose imitation. Optimists saw a new industry arising, out of fish-house garbage cans...
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