Word: glycerinated
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Most U. S. scientists suppose that Comrades Zbarsky & Vorobev forced the blood, which decomposes easily, from Lenin by pumping into an artery carbolic acid, glycerin, alcohol, formaldehyde-or perhaps some other chemical concoction which may be their secret. These preservatives pervade all the organs and blood vessels, even the capillaries, complete the same circuit as the blood. When a corpse is to be kept for a long time for scientific purposes, additional glycerin is pumped in at intervals to prevent shrinkage. Near-natural color could have been obtained by adding an aniline dye to the embalming fluid. The American Academy...
...last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus...
Such interchanges went on constantly during the war-always of course through a neutral intermediary. (The amenities of warfare must be observed, even at some inconvenience.) Throughout the war English and French industries maintained to Germany a steady stream of glycerin (or explosives), nickel, copper, oil, and rubber. Germany even returned the compliment: she sent France iron and steel and magnetos for gasoline engines. This constant traffic went on during the war via Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, or Holland, by the simple process of transshipment--enemy to neutral to enemy...
...went. Germany, throughout the war, had urgent need of nickel, aluminum, and chemicals like glycerin for explosives. France, because the rich Briey basin and other sources were out of her control, had to scratch hard for iron and steel. Continuously, therefore, what one nation lacked, the armament manufacturers of an enemy nation did their urgent best to provide. Month after month. German heavy industries exported an average of 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel, or barbed wire to Switzerland, where, having been smelted to a more convenient form, it was then transshipped to France. France, in her turn, shipped...
...Come to this field, my colleagues." cried he, "but bring with you, besides flasks of sterile glycerin broth and sterile litmus milk, much patience and an open mind...