Word: glycerinated
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...plume of fire rises from Well No. 16. The drill tower rears and twists. Thirteen men are dead. The fire rages on. Company inspectors decide that the fire can be snuffed only with explosives. Back at the port of Las Piedras, 300 miles away, sit two tons of nitro-glycerin-but can they be hauled across the shambles of a road that leads to the oil fields...
...stake was Philip Morris' chief stock in trade. In 18 years, its sales have shot from $2.6 million to $305 million, largely on the strength of the fact that Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol (instead of glycerin) as a moistening agent. It has persuaded thousands of smokers, in its famous "nose test," that consequently Philip Morris cigarettes are less irritating. As evidence, Philip Morris presented the FTC with testimony from doctors, researchers and others who reported on "scientific" tests as far back as 1934. For every expert brought in by Philip Morris, competitors and U.S. glycerin manufacturers popped...
British scientists at last week's meeting also heard that a few of their colleagues had all but solved one of the biggest problems in artificial insemination: the preservation of sperm over long periods. Frozen in a solution of glycerin (which acts as a cushion, preventing ice crystals from destroying cell life), spermatozoa from rabbits and poultry have already been preserved for as long as 33 days. "We have ... to contemplate," said Dr. A. S. Parkes of London's National Institute for Medical Research, "the possibility of an animal begetting progeny long after its death . . . We have also...
Astronomers used to think that only good-sized meteorites reach the earth intact, while the smaller ones "burn" to vapor on passing through the atmosphere. But Dr. H. E. Landsberg at the U.S. Weather Bureau had another idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
Last fall the Fairbanks Exploration Co., mining for gold in Alaska, washed the body out of its deep-freeze burial place; the parts that were found, still frozen, had changed little through the centuries. As the skin and flesh began to thaw, workmen embalmed them with formaldehyde, glycerin and alum. They were flown to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and quickly refrozen...