Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrunk glass is made by mixing two borosilicate formulas, one of which is soluble in acid, the other not. The mixture is melted and the glass is molded or blown to the desired shape. Then it is soaked in dilute nitric acid, which eats away the soluble ingredients, leaving the glass honeycombed with air spaces. Again heat is applied and the glass becomes solid, shrinking 35% in volume...
Corning officials figured that it would take two more years to manufacture and market the new glass in quantity. Then, they predict, it will be used in industry and in households wherever heat-resistant glass is needed. Expansion of the new glass under heat is imperceptible - three times less than the expansion of the great 200-inch telescope mirror which Corning cast for Caltech. When the next big piece of astronomical glass is made, preshrunk glass will probably be used...
...Mayer). Not stork-borne, this son is the adopted survivor of an airliner wreck on Tarzan's own African escarpment. Reared by Tarzan's mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, on antelope milk, the youngster at five looks like Johnny Weissmuller through the wrong end of an opera glass. He swims like a loon, rides turtles and elephants, fights lions singlehanded, lives just the life every tree-climbing young Tarzan-imitator yearns...
...until seven years after Buck's death was the chapel completed, but it fulfilled his wishes in every detail. A $1,000,000 structure, it looks like a cathedral (its tower was modeled after Canterbury Cathedral's Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail...
...zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...