Word: mica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Clark punches a tiny hole in the ear of a rabbit, similar to the holes which women used to pierce through their ears for earrings. In the hole he puts a double window. One pane is of glass or celluloid, the other of thin mica. The panes are 1/2,000 in. apart. So soon as the window is in place, the rabbit's ear begins to heal. Blood vessels, nerves, cells, all the appurtenances of living flesh work their way between the panes. When the rabbit is fastened so that the ear hole can be placed beneath...
...isolated-eka-iodine and eka-cesium.† Last week Dr. Fred Allison and Edgar Jackson Murphy of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., reported that they had "evidence of considerable weight for the presence" of eka-cesium in certain salts they had reduced from lepidolite, a form of mica, and pollucite, a mineral consisting chiefly of cesium, aluminum and silicon. When they break down their salts they will get a soft silvery-white metal which will look and react much as do the alkali metals lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium. When eka-cesium is isolated, then Messrs. Allison & Murphy...