Word: rosin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ages, and just as well with the Bartok and Schoenberg in their repertory as with the classics. When the performance is finished, the quartet usually gets a rousing cheer from a young audience, plus such probing questions as "What is the white stuff you put on the bows?" (rosin), and "Why doesn't the music have titles instead of just numbers...
Eventually, Rosin thinks, the protein problem can be solved by synthesizing amino acids. The human body does not use protein as protein. It breaks it down into amino acids and reassembles them into the specific kinds of protein it needs. So the proper mixture of amino acids will do just as well. "Our grandchildren," says Rosin, "will hardly believe that we were so primitive and barbaric that we had to eat cadavers of dead animals in order to stay alive...
...people who prefer dead animals to blended amino acids, Rosin has words of cheer. Chemistry can give meat substitutes any desired texture and make them taste better than the natural stuff...
Freedom from the Mine. There is no danger, says Rosin, that man will ever run out of mineral necessities. Along with freedom from the plant will come "freedom from the mine." Most scarce elements-e.g., tin-can be replaced by substitutes. What's more, almost any element can be recovered from the "dilute abundance" that covers the earth. Sea water, for instance, contains every element on the list. It is already supplying bromine and magnesium; it could supply many more...
...Rosin does not think that the extreme dilution of most elements in sea water is an insuperable obstacle. Sea water contains so little vanadium, for instance, that no chemical test will show it. But certain sea animals manage to concentrate vanadium in their blood. If they can do it, so can human chemists...