Word: phenol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...
...Phenol & Foxes. Sharp-eyed George Humphrey always seems to be looking ahead. Long before steelmen began worrying about exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals...
Frightened parents snatch hopefully at news of any new drug for treating infantile paralysis. One such new drug is called Darvisul. A whitish powder and a member of the sulfa family, Darvisul's scientific name is N-( 2-thiazolyl)-phenol sulfonamide. At Lederle Laboratories, where it was developed, its "working names" are phenosulfazole or Drug...
...exorcise these evils, Dow Chemical Co. offers dinitro-ortho-secondarybutyl-phenol, which it calls Dowspray 66 Improved. Sprayed on the vines, it shrivels them to chaff. Potatoes, synthetically frosted, stop growing, toughen their skins. Diggers shuck them out of the ground unclogged by greenery...
...camphor-phenol treatment for athlete's foot, which led many Digest readers to experiment with corrosive self-medication. Result: ulcerated feet...