Word: methanol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City last year ten of the 759 deaths from alcoholism were due to wood alcohol (methanol) ; in 1925, six of the 682 alcoholic deaths were so due. Wood alcohol, claimed the editors of Chemicals, trade publication, last week, has been maligned as a cause of death...
...formula "No.5" adds 4 parts methanol (wood alcohol), 2.25 parts pyridine bases, 0.5 parts benzene to 100 parts ethyl alcohol. Three ordinary drinks of this may cause blindness...
...poison gas in warfare. Said Commander Savage, vigorous warrior: "Ask any veteran of the A. E. F. whether war could be humane, with or without gas. . . ." Several days later, after a conference with Senator Borah, the President announced that he would support the Geneva protocol. ¶Germany can manufacture methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) for 48? per gallon; in the U. S. the production costs range from 72? to 75?. So, last week President Coolidge raised the tariff on methanol from 12? to 18? per gallon, thereby using the full extent of his power under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff...
Wood Alcohol. German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...