Word: narkotin
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Narkotin, Oxygen...
...Ottar Rygh must have had a good time playing with his porpoises while he fed them with irradiated narkotin [to demonstrate the storage possibilities of Vitamin C]. They make charming pets. However, as Ellis Parker Butler once informed his readers "Pigs is Pigs.'' Your abstractor is guilty of too literal translation from the German (or Norwegian) and has derived porpoises from Meerschweinchen, probably by way of sea pigs. This error is not unheard of, but should make the little guinea pig smile...
...have been grazing in the open. In my experiments I used the juice of oranges. ... In the unripe oranges I found the so-called provitamin -that is, the product which, when the fruit ripens, develops into the vitamin. I found that it was identical with what the chemists call narkotin. . . . Having arrived at this conclusion, my next task was to find a mechanical process to deal with narkotin, which proved to be very difficult to deal with, because it simply disappeared in storage...
...narkotin in the following way: the juice was pressed out of the unripe orange, and carefully evaporated under vacuum at a very low temperature. The juice after this treatment was pure. A solution of carbonate of soda was added and the juice again treated with ether, which then was again steamed off. The result was a yellow oil containing some needle-shaped crystals. When these crystals had been treated with ultra violet rays they proved able to withstand storage, and when they were given to a porpoise suffering from scurvy in its acutest form, the porpoise was completely cured after...
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