Word: malic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent experiment was to put a "growth inhibitor" (iodoacetic acid) in the water. It did not kill the cells, but stopped their growth by breaking a necessary chain of chemical reactions. Then, one after another, Thimann added likely compounds, hoping to see growth start again. He found that malic acid (which is found in apples) would overbalance the evil influence of iodoacetic acid, allowing the cells to grow. This proved that malic acid was somehow involved in the chain of reactions which the inhibitor had broken...
...Captain populates his island with all kinds of high-toned people, whom he transports to his hideaway at "Latitude Zero" (i.e., somewhere on the Equator) in a submarine. To rescue them he has brushes with huge man-eating crabs and trees, griffons and an evil fellow called Malic, who runs a rocket ship...