Word: nitrogenous
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...strike the U. S.: "It is reported throughout the European press that the German cartel, the I. G. (Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie), has, through exchange of stock, merged with the Norwegian Hydro-Electric Co. and that the latter is contemplating a great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through one of the great American banking organizations.* "Is it right?" questioned Dr. Herty, "that the savings of our people should be directed by this institution to the support of a European monopoly which will seek the destruction...
...tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...
...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give one lung such a rest, leaving the other to breathe for both. The surgeon sticks a hollow needle into the pleural cavity of the tubercular lung and lets some air, oxygen or nitrogen flow in. The lung collapses. He increases the pressure of the gas against the flaccid lung. This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates. The pressure also brings healing blood to the lung, and after a time the sputum ceases to carry...
Fertilizers. "When we want, we shall make food from coal or wood," confidently said Dr. Louis C. Jones of the Nitrogen Engineering Corp., Manhattan. Four-fifths of the world's production of artificial fertilizers are made with the aid of coal, not by water power as is commonly supposed...