Word: leadfoil
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Stating that leadfoil was needed for radiation-resistant insulation, the Society urged students to save gum and cigarette wrappers. By nightfall about a wastebasketful had been collected, the Society reported...
...once by the claim of a French scientist that he had discovered in the human body a "paroptic" sense, or one making sight possible through the pores of the skin. In proof of this the doctor had his subject blindfolded with heavy cloth for ordinary light lays, and with leadfoil for X-rays. The subject then "read", printed cards held a short distance from his nose...
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