Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly a soldier ran around a corner of the house. He went away but was soon back with a young medic, who threw off his pack, mixed some powder and liquid, poured it into a glass and held the glass to my lips. He gave me another shot of morphine and carried me to the front of the house and laid me under a grapevine a few yards down the road. Out of a large cylinder he took two bottles. One held powder, the other liquid. He mixed the two in a bottle, which he hung to the grape arbor...
Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor...
Waves. The widening use of high-intensity sound waves (some high-sounding, some inaudible) was suggested by the University of Minnesota's Professor Karl Sollner. These waves, which can disperse or collect gaseous, liquid or solid particles, are now used to clear the air of fog and smoke, kill or disrupt germs, impregnate aluminum with microscopic lead particles, create fine-grained photographic emulsions...
...they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied the dregs into their dung shovels, hungrily sucked up the liquid filth...
Thus he eventually developed membranes that speedily separated not only water from oil but various liquid chemicals from water, water from city gas, water from compressed air. (His method separates only immiscible fluids and gases, does not work on emulsions or solutions...