Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuel, bald, reserved Physicist Goddard, 47, once utilized common black powder, found it lacked power, then developed a new fuel. One pound of his new propellant, an explosive mixture of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, is equivalent to 50 Ibs. of gun powder...
...Fifteen hydrogen balloons rode a southerly breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start...
...accomplishments of Academician Claude to date include invention of neon lights to illuminate advertising boards and air fields; a process for capturing gases from coke ovens which are converted into hydrogen, nitrogen compounds, innumerable drugs; a method for liquefying air which is used by the $25,000,000 Air Reduction Company; a method of dissolving acetylene in acetone, a process which yields $20,000,000 in annual sales...
...between Sir Henri and a great Standard company, though it was Standard of New Jersey, not Standard of New York, with whom Sir Henri treated. Closely following the announcement that Standard of New Jersey and I. G. Farbenindustrie, great German chemical "trust," were about to get their new oil-hydrogenation process into commercial production, came the announcement that Royal Dutch had joined the patent pool controlling the new process. The process itself (which depends upon combining hydrogen with crude oil in such a manner that from 100 gallons of crude plus hydrogen may be produced 100 gallons of gasoline...
...tube containing nitrogen and water vapor. The helium atoms traveling at a clip of 11,000 mi. per sec. smashed into the nitrogen atoms. The force of the impact caused the atoms to merge for an instant to form fluorine which immediately broke down, with explosive force, into hydrogen and oxygen...