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Word: chromic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When withering and decomposition started, The Bronx botanists cut off parts of the plant which they prepared for a pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prodigious Plant | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...announced in the American Chemical Society's Journal by Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associate, Thomas S. Oakwood, of Pennsylvania State College. From yeast Researchers Marker & Oakwood obtained ergosterol, an organic compound related to Vitamin D-producing cholesterol. From an ergosterol derivative, which they acetylated, oxidized with chromic acid, hydrolized and distilled, they built up the white crystals of theelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Synthetic Theelin | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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