Word: isopropyl
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced something promising: a synthetic weed killer, isopropyl-N-phenyl carbamate (IPC), which does away with at least one kind of grass without hurting certain broad-leaved crops such as sugar beets and spinach...
Professor James Flack Norris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) told of researches into the possible products from petroleum waste (crude oil after gasoline and other products have been extracted). Fresh attacks upon this problem have already yielded a new alcohol, called isopropyl. The peculiarity of this alcohol is that, unlike all others, it has no exhilarating effect when taken into the human system. If it can be used in industry there will be no temptation for bootleggers to "denature" it and sell it for drink...