Word: hydrocarbon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test the theory, scientists exposed typical organic compounds (such as fatty acids) to the beam of a cyclotron. Sure enough, they got a small yield of hydrocarbon. The next step will be to extract organic substances from the earth of a potential oil pool, and see if a cyclotron beam can turn it into petroleum...
...Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...
...Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Dr. Charles A. Thomas and Hydrocarbon Research Inc.'s President P. C. Keith: ten years, if scientists get busy right...
These hungry oil-eaters promise a new method of spotting oilfields. Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...
According to a sectional diagram in the London Daily Express, a radio control unit is mounted immediately behind the warhead. Then come hydrocarbon and liquid oxygen fuel chambers, a centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber, and a set of tail fins 10 ft. long...