Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marquette, Joe started in engineering, switched to law. A slugging, savage attacker, he became the college boxing champion. He worked as short-order cook, sold gravestones and calking compound, worked in a filling station until 1 a.m. On the campus he was president of his class one year, a perennial chairman of events, and he knew everybody's name...
Snug Atoms. Organic chemistry deals with carbon compounds like those found in living organisms. Most of them have long chains or rings of carbon atoms with one atom or more of hydrogen attached to each carbon atom. Fluorine atoms are heavier than hydrogen, but they are about the same size, and they fit snugly into the molecule without disturbing the existing arrangement of the carbon atoms. The result of replacing the hydrogen atoms in the molecule with fluorine is a compound which resembles the organic original in some respects. But the new fluorochemical has different and sometimes remarkable properties...
...best commercial method of making them. Instead of starting with dangerous and expensive fluorine gas, its process, invented during World War II by Professor J. H. Simons of Florida University, uses an electrolytic cell charged with hydrogen fluoride, which is much easier to handle. The organic compound that is to be transformed is mixed with the hydrogen fluoride. When an electric current is passed through the solution, fluorine atoms obediently change places with hydrogen atoms in the organic compound, turning it into the corresponding fluorochemical...
Green Stone. Another group of diggers, led by Dr. George Glenn Cameron of the University of Michigan, reported last week on their trip to the wild mountain country between Iraq and Iran. Their job was to get a perfect mold in a latex rubber compound of a green stone that stands in an inaccessible 11,000-ft. pass looking south toward Mesopotamia. The stone was erected by King Ispuinis of the Urartians, a civilized people who lived some 2,800 years ago on the northern border of the great Assyrian Empire. From time to time the Urartians challenged the mighty...
Soft Soap. Like Tex Harvey, other drillers have found that a Spraberry well must be coddled. Because of the hard-packed nature of the formation, ordinary drilling methods will not release the oil; instead, a gelatinous compound of soap and kerosene, followed by coarse sand, must be pumped into the hole under tremendous pressure. This loosens the fractures and the oil begins to flow freely...