Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head he replied: "I guess it's my sense of adventure." His mother thinks the same qualities which made him a great chemist will make him just as great a university president. Says she: "He won't get excited. Everything works out by formula: he'll compound his formula for running the university, and then stand over while it develops into substance...
...majority, and Mr. Low's experience conclusively showed that the elected person desirous of tampering with the fundamentals of government machinery needs a majority, in constituency as well as in council. Further, the Major's support was, as the support of most reform candidates must be, a compound highly unstable and volatile. He was selected by three well defined and normally hostile groups, the regular Republican machine, the illuminati, and a large class of emotional malcontents whose judgments are never continuous, and who cannot be relied upon in any crisis which attempts at reform may bring...
Another product made from maleic acid is Succinic Acid, which occurs naturally in amber. A compound of succinic acid,, succinyl-chlorimide, has been found to be a thoroughgoing purifier of water. A six-milligram speck of succinyl-chlorimide, reported Dr. Downs, disinfects a canteen of water in a few minutes...
...Zein resembles cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks the protein substance might be turned into artificial silk...
Synthetic Rubber. E. I. du Pont de Nemours &. Co. decided the time was propitious to announce that its synthetic rubber was good enough for all, and cheap enough for some, industrial uses. Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, research chemist, appeared for the company and said: "Starting with vinylacetylene, a compound made available through the discoveries of Dr. J[ulius] A[rthur] Nieuwland of Notre Dame University, du Pont chemists have synthesized a large number of new compounds closely related to isoprene. At least two of them, chloroprene and bromo-prene, are enormously superior to any other materials as starting points...