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...1950s, Estes had gone into business as a distributor of anhydrous ammonia, a cheap, efficient nitrogen fertilizer widely used in large-scale farming. Indeed, the stuff has become as necessary as water to the farm economy of West Texas. Estes got way behind in his anhydrous ammonia bills from Commercial Solvents, and by 1958 he owed the firm some $550,000. He went to New York and sold officers of the firm on a complex deal: under the agreement, Commercial...
...Good Deal. Estes made his entrance into big-time wheeling and dealing during the late 1950s as a distributor of anhydrous ammonia, an efficient nitrogen fertilizer used in large-scale farming. He talked New York's Commercial Solvents Corp., one of the U.S.'s biggest manufacturers of anhydrous ammonia, into selling him huge quantities of the stuff on credit, reportedly with five years to pay. Then he sold the fertilizer to Texas farmers at cut-rate prices, driving rival dealers out of business and quickly making himself one of the biggest anhydrous ammonia distributors...
Rochow's research will involve work with semi-inorganic polymers, based on a framework of silicon and nitrogen atoms. He will be working with research and post-doctoral fellows and two undergraduates...
...determine the extent of hybridization, the DNA strand of one strain of bacteria is made heavier by introducing heavy nitrogen. If this chain "mates" with a chain of normal weight to form a hybrid, the weight of the resulting DNA will lie midway between the normal and heavy...
...moment's notice. Lox, which is used in the Atlas and Titan I, is cheap and an efficient oxidizer, but its extreme cold ( - 297°F.) and its eagerness to boil away make it troublesome and unreliable. Instead of this chemical bad actor, Titan II uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) as fuel. Both are liquids that can be stored for long periods at ordinary temperatures in the missile's own tanks, require no last-minute transfusions of rebellious, bubbly lox. "This was really noticeable at Canaveral," says Feldman...