Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
...Newest use of the oldest plastic (cellulose nitrate) is for storage-battery housings. Designed for portable searchlights on war duty, the new batteries point toward postwar automobile batteries that are lighter, tougher, and so transparent that the level of the liquid may be checked at a glance...
Standard Oilmen are proud of their "cat cracker" because it is the first to operate continuously. Instead of passing oil vapors through a catalytic bed or chamber, as in older devices, the process uses a powdered catalyst so fine that it acts like a liquid, is carried along by the very vapors it cracks. As a powder, the catalyst exposes the maximum surface to the reaction...
...that each should be given two ounces daily. Lips can be moistened, the mouth rinsed with sea water, but "there is no doubt that large draughts of sea water cause death and even small amounts may prejudice a man's chance of survival on a long voyage. . . . The liquid contained in the lifeboat's compass should never be drunk: it is poisonous...