Word: hixson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romance between bees and flowers is not always gentle. Alfalfa flowers, for instance, can be brutal. Last week Dr. Ephraim Hixson of the University of Nebraska was trying to make alfalfa flowers kinder to bees. His object, of course, was more alfalfa seed...
...Nebraska and other regions that produce alfalfa seed, wild bees are getting scarcer. In recent years, the yield of seed per acre has been steadily going down. Dr. Hixson has been crossing alfalfa strains, breeding them for gentleness of pistil. He hopes to develop flowers with so soft a wallop that even the timidest bee will not be afraid to alight on them...
...vanadium from phosphates-as a by-product in the making of fertilizers. Vanadium is a rare metal badly needed by U.S. arms plants for hardening steel. The new method climaxes four years of research by Chemical Engineers J. Perry Morgan (of Standard Oil of New Jersey) and Arthur W. Hixson (of Columbia University...
...demand is far outstripping supply: engineers last week estimated that a ton of chlorine goes into making a tank, two tons in the making of a plane (in its plastics, paint & varnish, degreasing chemicals, rubber, some alloys). The new process, announced by Chemical Engineers Arthur Warren Hixson and Alvan Howard Tenney of Columbia University: sulfur, through burning and catalysis, is changed to sulfur trioxide gas which is then infiltrated through common salt. The resulting compound (sodium chlorosulfinate) is decomposed by heat to produce salt cake (sodium sulfate) and chlorine. Salt cake, of which the U.S. has imported...
Alcoa engineers reported that they knew nothing of his discovery except what they had read in the newspapers. Professor Hixson said he had turned his process over to the Government and expected a pilot plant would shortly be erected to substantiate his cost estimates in actual production. It will probably be located near the cheap-power source of the Tennessee Valley. Raw material can be mined in almost anybody's back yard since aluminum, the commonest of all metals, is one of the three principal components of the earth's crust...