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Flush Toilets & Farms. The inch-by-inch family farming here produces among the highest per-acre yields in the world, or Japan would long since have starved. There have been grave postwar shortages: fertilizers and farm supplies. Nitrates are now so scarce that human manure provides half the nitrogen used on farms. If flush toilets were installed throughout Japan, its agriculture would be wrecked overnight...
Last week a nonprofit group called the Eastern Graduate Research Foundation announced a new campaign against Lactobacillus and a three-year program to test it. The new weapon is a tooth powder containing dibasic ammonium phosphate and urea (a synthetic nitrogen compound). The powder is supposed to break down tooth film, slow down growth of bacteria and neutralize the acid created by Lactobacillus. In preliminary experiments, the foundation claims, it has reduced decay as much...
...study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon and try to deal with it before the practical engineers start working at Mach...
...years U.S. millers have been using in their flour a compound called nitrogen trichloride. It bleaches wheat flour and saves months in the aging process (hence the trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
...helium "ashes," while by far the most abundant, are not the only chemical elements which can be detected by sharp-eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms; its densest matter...