Word: enameled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin-born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...
Through research at the University, he and James H. Shaw, assistant professor of Dental Medicine, have discovered that dental enamel is actually composed in part of living organic matter, not of purely inorganic matter, as was formerly supposed. This research has enabled them to learn considerable information about the causes of tooth decay...
...These discoveries," Sognnaes states make clearer what is involved in the decay of a tooth. The micro-organisms that are believed to cause decay. . . are much wider than the individual crystal and organic units that make up the enamel. Hence, before a micro-organism can invade the enamel, both the organic and the inorganic matter (or the bond between the two) must be destroyed or weakened in some...
Sognnaes and Shaw have shown that enamel is also quite dependent on the rest of the body. Using radioactive cancer elements in their University laboratory, they have discovered an unceasingly way traffic of ions in the enamel zone of calcium and phosphorous, a freely exchangeable...
World War II interrupts these amusements, and Claude goes unwhipped for years. After the war François tries to find his childhood friends again. Denise has grown into a woman as stunning and desirable as "my beautiful bicycle when I was eight years old ... all nickel and ultramarine enamel." Francois marries her, but he cannot forget Claude. She has almost ruined herself by spending too much time in the primrose (or aquamarine) bed of dalliance with a bunch of softies. But soon after the slapping incident, François is seen pursuing her through a forest on horseback, whipping...