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...helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound NH1H2/2 would be called di-diplogen mono-hydrogen nitride. . . . Unfortunate is the repetition of the syllable 'di.' . . . "The [British] objection to ... deuterium and deuton seems to be founded upon the possibility of confusing the word neutron and the name deuton. It is interesting indeed that American scientific workers do not have any such difficulty." Not every Briton favored the Rutherford...
...from Chicago's Curtis-Wright-Reynolds Airport at 2:02 a. m. one morning last week shot Lieut.-Commander Frank Hawks in a big all-metal Northrup mono- plane, powered by a 700 h. p. Wright engine, the first 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine in commercial use. At 4:22 p. m. a day later he set his plane down on the same field, climbed stiffly out to the cheers of opening day spectators at the Chicago Daily News-sponsored International Air Races. ''I'm not a bit tired," said he, despite the fact that...
...United Artists) is an animated album of vacation photographs, showing how an ingenious celebrity comports himself abroad. The celebrity is Douglas Fairbanks. The pictures of Fairbanks '"doing" the Orient are accompanied by a mono-log, written by Robert Sherwood, in which Fairbanks makes comments, derisive or enthusiastic, on himself and his surroundings...
Three enthusiastic young chemists of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. arose and addressed the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society at Akron to describe the following experiment: By catalytic polymerization of acetylene they had produced mono-vinylacetylene. This they had treated with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While...
Experiments continued at the du Pont Co.'s Jackson Laboratories and in Father Nieuwland's laboratory at Notre Dame. The chemists gave up working on divinylacetylene and concentrated on the more homely mono-vinylacetylene. They treated it with hydrogen chloride and first thing they knew they had a fine pot of chloroprene. Chloroprene differs from rubber's polymer, isoprene, only in that a chlorine atom replaces the methyl group, so after that the going was fairly easy. They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers. When they finished they...