Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quoted prices) into a 1,000-gallon still. In the still are hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution as a white powder...
...does not appear in the known chemistry of living things. This, they decided, must be a taillike fragment knocked off some larger fragment. They would shift it around, like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, until they found a spot where it could be placed to form a familiar compound. Little by little, their picture of the insulin molecule took on detail. At last they were sure they knew where each building block belonged...
...entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador and spat into the embassy compound. When he walked out of the Foreign Office, he carried away with him two irate Swedish protests...
...Hydrocortisone (Compound F) is more potent than cortisone (Compound E) in treating some eye diseases, said four Philadelphia researchers; it has proved "dramatic" in checking cases of vernal conjunctivitis ("spring catarrh...
Soon after, Manning had a crackup in his own Fairchild monoplane. He was hauled from the wreckage with a concussion, compound fractures of both legs, a compound jaw fracture, a broken arm, a broken nose, and countless cuts and bruises. Doctors thought he would never walk again. But nine months after the crackup he was back on the bridge...