Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Railroad on time paid for with its money to do his political bidding, to the serious cost of the stockholders of the road. . . . It is an outrageous abuse of the interests of the railroad. . . . His treachery to the party which honored him has made the issue crystal clear...
...liquid crystal is any liquid substance possessing the optical properties of a crystal...
Between the crystal (highest form of inorganic matter) and a unicellular bit of protoplasm (lowest form of living matter) has been a gap which scientists have never been able to span. In a recent issue of Nature, British scientific weekly, Dr. F. Rinne, University of Freiburg, Germany, suggested similarities between a crystal and a simple sperm cell which may be the means of drawing living and nonliving matter together. He pointed out that a chief characteristic of liquid crystals* is the so-called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also...
...sipped tea and talked dog-shop, Dr. Little chose Watchman of Monagh Lea as No. 1 U. S. Scotty. This dog's value: $3,000. His prize: $15 and a silver cup. World's best Scotty is Heather Necessity, best-of-breed at London's last Crystal palace show...
...Piezoelectricity (piezo, Greek to press), discovered by the Curies a half-century ago, is generated when pressure is applied to a pyroelectric crystal (one in which a temperature change produces a state of electric polarity). In the piezo effect the amount of electricity freed is proportional to the pressure applied. First pyroclectric crystal discovered: tourmaline...