Word: glycolized
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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...
...even saw them, which is very annoying. I first felt a kind of funny bump, and as I turned to see what was up, my controls suddenly felt funny, a lot of red sparks and black smoke appeared round my feet and a cloud of white smoke, probably glycol, began streaming back from the engine...
Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn...