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...P.E.T.N." is the short name for pentaerythritoltetranitrate, an explosive made from formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, nitric acid. It appeared as a laboratory curiosity during World War I, is no more destructive than standard military explosives, but has the great advantage that no glycerin is needed to make it. In Cincinnati it was reported that Germany, which is short of glycerin, is using P.E.T.N., if not for military purposes, at least for industrial uses, and so releases more of the glycerine explosives for use in shells, bombs, torpedoes, mines, depth charges...
Impending war has made whaling highly competitive. The industrial value of a full-grown blue whale is about $1,500. Whale oil can be made into glycerin (for high explosives, etc.), oleomargarine, soap, lubricants. England has stored some 80,000 tons of it for war purposes. Partly because the Antarctic is its chief source, Germany, Norway and Argentina recently laid claim to vast segments of that frozen continent, and the U. S. is to send Admiral Byrd thither next October to establish U. S. claims...
...device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin and alcohol is fed through holes in the blade to the outer surface of the windshield. Retail cost, installed in a Douglas...
...stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...
...face, use a 50% alcoholic solution of thymol, or oil of cloves in lanolin. 4) If bitten, apply immediately a weak solution of ammonia, washing soda, or soap and vinegar. A cut onion will also relieve the sting. 5) If the bite is painful, swab it with iodine in glycerin...