Word: divinyl
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...share a common attempt to launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...
...Also in Philadelphia last week met six groups of anesthetists. Their gravest concern was a new anesthetic called divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...
...purpose of rubber rather than duplicate its composition. The synthetic rubber which grew out of the Nieuwland researches is 40% chlorine, not an ingredient of natural rubber at all. At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton was there, suspected that if the monovinyl could be similarly produced, artificial rubber was at hand. Acetylene, from common coke and lime, is cheap...
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