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The Pauling resonance theory of chemical bonds is of little interest to the toiling masses. It uses the difficult methods of quantum mechanics to explain how the "resonance" (internal vibrations) of atoms makes them join together into molecules. Parts of the theory are still to be worked out, but other...
Donald G. MacVicar Jr., 21-year-old Amherst senior and chemistry major, got the idea in a college bull session. After he tested it in the laboratory, MacVicar decided he had the answer to a problem that has long puzzled professional paleontologists: how to separate certain delicate, prehistoric fossils from...
Dr. Slattery had read scientific reports telling how such injured and dislocated teeth could be taken out and successfully reimplanted in their own sockets, and had done it once himself. He pulled the embedded tooth, took out the dead nerve, plugged the base of the tooth with porcelain to prevent...
In Racine, Wis. last week S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. (Johnson's Wax) dedicated a building with little visible means of support. A 156-ft. glass & brick tower, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as the latest thing in laboratories. The building has no foundation directly under its...
On the waterfront, two coal barges burned and smoked. The pier had disappeared and so had the lighters and the twelve railroad cars. The Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards...