Word: methyl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manufacturers of artificial refrigerators were distressed last fortnight by a report that two persons in Danbury, Conn., had been asphyxiated by "methyl chlorine" escaping from an artificial refrigerator (TiME, Oct. 25). They were distressed because...
...Early types of artificial refrigerators and ice-making machines employed electric vacuum pumps, cooling by diminished pressure. Last week, at Danbury, Conn., two persons were asphyxiated by methyl chlorine escaping from an artificial refrigerator...