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...Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
...only effect of the gas on humans is to produce a "kind of intoxication." Said Experimenter Midgley: ''The best way I can describe this sensation is to say that it is deadening. Instead of the exhilaration such as is credited to alcohol, these fumes do not arouse a desire to sing or to recite poetry...
...Midgley's refrigerant, a combination of fluorine, chlorine, carbon, was developed in a General Motors laboratory with the aid of Dr. A. L. Henne, Belgian chemist...
...Nicholas medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society was awarded to Thomas Midgley, of the General Motors Research Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, for his work in reducing the detonation or " knock" in automobile engines. The inventor is 32 years old, the youngest recipient of the medal, which was established in 1903 for achievements in chemistry...
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