Word: glues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colloids are jelly-like substances, solutions of which pass through an animal membrane with difficulty, as opposed to other types of solutions known as crystalloids. Glue, gelatin, starch and albumen are typical colloids. Their importance has come to be recognized only in the last few years. Wilhelm Ostwald, the great Leipzig chemist, was a pioneer in the investigation of colloids, and many scientists are daily adding to the store of knowledge about them...
Extreme heat is no easier than cold to fly in. The wood, fabric and glue which constitute the structure of an ordinary seaplane may yield to continuously high temperatures...
...French. They work in all mediums-from redwood to Circassian walnut. They do not greatly resent the encroachments of the machine age, for they recognize its assistance to the craftsman. Machines rough out much of the work for the hand-carver to finish, and a composition of sawdust and glue is much used for the conventional work. The pieces displayed include every variety of ornamental and utilitarian furniture, from German altar pieces to Grandfather clocks and Chippendale suites. The chef-d'oeuvre is a basswood panel by Leopold Baillot, in a design of acanthus leaves and birds. Other famed...