Word: ethyle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months ago, when five handlers of tetraethyl lead employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
...story was told of the retreat founded by Dr. Victor G. Heiser. In a commandeered Government vessel, he went from port to port, herded the wretches on board, took them to Culion. There they led normal lives, received the expensive treatment of ethyl ester. Their children were born "clean...
...Lachrymatory gases such as chloropicrin, ethyl iodoacetate, bromacetone, chloracetone, brommethy-lethyltetone. These are nonfatal gases, except in very high concentrations, momentarily efficacious in high concentrations but easily controlled by respirators or goggles...
...there is bromine in seawater, about a pound of the heavy brown liquid to 1,700 gallons of ocean. Some Manhattan oil men have remembered this, have developed a new extraction process, fitted out a floating factory, the Ethyl, which sails next week from Wilmington, Del, for a long cruise and no port...
Equipped with large-capacity pumps at her waterline, the Ethyl will roam the seas, sucking up 7,000 gallons of water per minute. A recovery plant on board is expected to extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...