Word: selenium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confiscated by Manhattan agents of the Food and Drug Administration this week was a load of 30,000 aluminum-cased lipsticks, sent to the U. S. by the swank Parisian parfumerie, Guerlain, Inc. They charged: for coloring, the lipsticks contained cadmium and selenium, poisonous chemicals banned in U. S. cosmetics...
Cadmium, an element of the zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...
...made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual...
...Selenium-Poisoned Wheat-Selenium, a poisonous metallic element related to sulphur, has been found in such quantities in the soil of Wyoming and South Dakota that Dr. Horace Greeley Byers, Government soil chemist, considered a warning advisable. Said he: "In a wide variety of plants, including wheat, growing upon those areas, selenium was present in concentrations ranging from traces up to quantities which are deadly to animals. In many cases the selenium present produced chronic diseases which may ultimately cause death. . . . Preventive measures should be taken. It seems, however, that no serious concern need be felt except in the areas...
...sensitivity of selenium to light was discovered in 1873 by Willoughby Smith. Restaurant and railway station doors opened by selenium cells are still novelties...