Word: phosphorus
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...Proceed with the fertilizer program. . . . Acquire some phosphate land. . . . While the phosphorus plant is getting under way, work out plans for a complete cycle of processes, perhaps including Portland cement...
...weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn as a tracer. Beside them are two .30 calibre guns and on each side of the centre fuselage two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns sweep the skies from the rear...
...seen under the microscope, the giant, complex molecules of proteins are among the most important targets of current research in biological chemistry. Until recent years not much was known about them except that they were very big; that they contained carbon, hydrogen. oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulphur and phosphorus; that in such animal processes as digestion they were broken down by protein-wreckers called enzymes and that they were composed of polypeptide chains which might, presumably, be contorted in any number of patterns...
...They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast...
...hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...