Word: gelatinize
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...babies suffer a violent shock during the process of being born. The shock shifts the water content of the body cells, also makes them unfit to retain water. The baby is water-starved. To overcome dehydration due to birth shock, Dr. Kugelmass has tried feeding newborns a solution of gelatin, salt and dextrose...
...study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip. In Rome, where he arrived with a curly brown beard like a myopic apostle, he took a few lessons from a British sculptor named Spence and learned the newly discovered process for making plaster casts from gelatin molds. John Rogers invented many improvements...
...Although their value to life and well-being is incalculable, they could justly figure that eleven billion dollars of industry depend upon their knowledge and activity. The diversity of their work has enforced specializing: agriculture and food chemistry, biology, medicine, cellulose, colloids, dyes, fertilizers, gas and fuel, leather and gelatin, paint and varnish, petroleum, rubber, sugar, water, sewage and sanitation...
...gelatin-latex treated cotton fabric, developed by Goodyear-Zeppelin for gas cells to take the place of goldbeater's skin (intestine of cattle) heretofore used in dirigibles. (To supply the Akron, the intestines of 1,500,000 cattle would have been required...
...lens which throws the image on the reverse side of a translucent screen through which it is visible from the front. Ordinary screens for movies are opaque, made out of heavy cloth painted with certain chemicals. Screens used in Trans-Lux are molded of a chemical composition of which gelatin is the base. A combination of properties in the lens and the screen prevents the image from penetrating beyond the screen. Trans-Lux first became commercially practicable about two years ago. Early Trans-Lux machines in brokerage houses illumined the ticker-tape quotations of the 1929 crash...