Word: salt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...
Other chemists as learned as Professor Keyes, however, doubt the practicability of his electroplating with aluminum. He takes an aluminum salt (like aluminium bromide), dissolves it in an organic solution (ordinary electroplating uses metal salts in water), submerges the object to be coated, and through both solution and object passes a direct electric current. The procedure is very difficult to carry through, is expensive-and so probably not generally useful. Aluminum Co. of America is not using...
Died. John C. Cutler, 82, president of the Deseret National Bank of Salt Lake City, onetime (1905-09) governor of Utah; by suicide; in Salt Lake City...
...Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome by a series of political backfires during the week-the Owen "bolt...
...bunk. The reason for this rude awakening was that I had been thrown clear over the canvas strip attached along the bed to prevent just such an accident. . . . "The slant of the boat was so great that the electric refrigerator refused to work and we were obliged to salt down the meat in order to keep it from spoiling." She told about two wire-haired fox terriers: "Nip developed sea-legs very soon, but Tuck took some time to acclimate himself. By the time the storm was over, however, both had become regular seadogs. Tuck still objected to the slant...