Word: diphenyl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hiram Houston Merritt & Tracy Jackson Putnam of Boston announced that a little used drug, diphenyl hydantoin, completely prevents, or reduces the frequency of attacks of epilepsy in 77% of patients with the severe type. It soothes, does not cause drowsiness...
...longer than do steam or air. Hot liquids in general are better storers of heat than are vapors or gases. But it is difficult to raise the temperatures of liquids to very high, useful heats. Chemical engineers obtain controlled temperatures of about 900° F. with an organic substance, diphenyl. Highest degree to which water can go and remain water is 698° F. Its pressure against pipes is then almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur Dehon Little, Boston chemist, discovered in Germany and reported last week...