Word: crystallizer
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...announced a new trick to detect fakers who claim eye injuries, expected the trick to be of interest to insurance companies and industrial corporations. The gadget makes use of polarized light, which is light filtered so that it vibrates in only one plane. If light filtered through a polarizing crystal encounters a second crystal whose cleavage plane* is turned perpendicularly, it cannot get through. But if the second crystal is rotated until the cleavage plane is parallel to the light waves, the light is then transmitted...
...molecules in a crystal are arranged in regular rows. The cleavage planes are tiny gaps between these rows, like the gaps in a picket fence, through which the light passes. If the planes are vertical, for example, only vertically vibrating light will pass through...
...White found that his crystal was a heavy protein. In a way, this was unfortunate. In no case has the structural formula, or atomic architecture, of any protein molecule been mapped out by biochemists. It has been calculated that if a typical protein consists of 30 amino acids (protein structural units), 18 of which are different, the number of possible molecular arrangements is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Young Dr. White made the point that the mystery of protein structure must be cleared up before scientists can understand how the hormones exert their obscure...
...spots. Mary Haines, happily married, learns of her husband's infidelity from a manicurist, but too many of her friends have their claws polished by the same girl. The story is out; it is enlarged and twisted until the unwilling wife fices to Reno, letting her husband marry Crystal, form the perfume counter at Saks. For two years she lives with her children in seclusion, brushing up on technique. Then one day Little Mary comes home from visiting Daddy and drops the remark that Auntic Crystal isn't the saint she might be. From there it is not hard...
...CRYSTAL WORLD-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). An author who always manages to seem honester than the words he writes, Novelist Aldington (Death of A Hero, All Men Are Enemies, et al.) here plies his trade-secret with a heavy hand. Twenty-one oozy love lyrics, written in the first person, are followed by a commentary in which he describes the crystal sources of the ooze. For debutantes, deadly poison...