Word: nitrogen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pile-ups for which the free ways are famous. "The way to get the biggest dose," says Haagen-Smit, "is to keep as close as one can to the car ahead of you. The fellow who does that gets the most carbon monoxide, also the most lead, oxides of nitrogen, carcinogens, everything...
B.A.S.F. started a century ago as a manufacturer of dyestuffs, went on to develop revolutionary new processes for making sulphuric acid and liquefying chlorine; 85% of the world's nitrogen is made by a process that came out of B.A.S.F. laboratories. In the 1930s, after it had been absorbed by I. G. Farben, the company produced many new plastics and the first magnetic recording tape. To this day, magnetic tape is its only consumer product; everything else is sold as a raw material or for industrial...
...thought to be of small value because it broke up in water; Du Pont found a way to waterproof it, called it Cellophane and revolutionized packaging. Du Font's growing group of scientists followed up with a series of breakthroughs: the first commercial U.S. synthetic rubber, the first nitrogen synthetic fertilizer, and the first synthetic fiber -nylon, which now comes in 450 varieties and rings up some $500 million in yearly sales for the company...
Peralta turned to the country's businessmen, asked them what to do, and took their advice. He promoted new trade agreements with his neighbors, offered low-cost credit to farmers, expanded cotton production on Guatemala's rich Pacific slope. "That land is so rich in nitrogen," says one cotton grower, "that you could sack it and sell it for fertilizer." This year's income from Guatemala's major crops-coffee, cotton and bananas-should reach $134 million, 35% more than...
...General Hospital in Minneapolis, first to open a large Government-supported unit in the U.S., which has been in operation since May 1 this year. Once inside the pressurized chambers, Dr. Hitchcock reported, the hospital staff and patient share all the dangers of the deep-sea diver. There is nitrogen narcosis, or Cousteau's "raptures of the deep"-also known as "the martini effect"-caused by excess nitrogen; "oxygen ebullience," a kind of euphoria resulting from excess oxygen; and finally, "the bends" or "caisson disease," from too-rapid decompression...