Word: glycol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
...sprays. Many chemicals were found to kill airborne micro-organisms quickly, even in concentrations as low as one gram of chemical per 500 cu. ft. of air. Trouble was that all these air germicides smelled bad, or were toxic, or irritated the respiratory tract. Dr. Robertson's propylene glycol vapor is odorless, tasteless, nontoxic, non-irritating, cheap, highly bactericidal...
Green ones will guzzle your glycol...
...growing U.S. war demand for chlorine-e.g., for making synthetic rubber; ethylene glycol, which cools the Army's high-speed airplane engines; ammonium picrate, the Navy's chief source of explosives-can be met by a new process which 1) requires no electric power, 2) simultaneously produces another badly needed chemical, salt cake. By electrolysis of chlorides (mostly sodium chloride, common salt) the U.S. now makes about 2,200 tons of liquid chlorine a day. But demand is far outstripping supply: engineers last week estimated that a ton of chlorine goes into making a tank, two tons...
...incident reminded many people of a 1937 scandal, when a Southern chemical company mixed sulfanilamide with diethylene glycol (a material used in anti-freeze solutions), sent it to drugstores without making adequate tests. From drinking the poisonous combination, at least 73 people died...