Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blending powdered quartz, magnesite and bauxite, the bureaumen added a crystallizing agent (fluorosilicate compound) and melted the ingredients in a platinum-lined crucible at nearly 2,500° F. As the furnace cooled, mica sheets grew from tiny "seed crystals" at the coneshaped bottom of the crucible. Because crucibles lined with carbon or ceramic failed to do the trick, the bureau scientists used expensive platinum, hope to reduce costs by melting down the metal and reusing it time & again...
Next day, the problem of the prisoners gave Derevyanko new troubles. When his car pulled up to the Soviet embassy shortly after noon, he found the gate closed, the compound surrounded by some 400 sad-eyed Japanese who wanted an answer to a petition in which they begged information on their missing relatives Derevyanko sneaked into the embassy by the back door, later sent an interpreter out to deal with the crowd. He got the petitioners to disperse on promise of an answer this week...