Word: silicones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford, dolomite is powdered, calcined (burned in a kiln) and mixed with ferrosilicon-an electric-furnace product of silicon and iron long used in steelmaking. The mixture is pressed into briquettes and charged into furnaces. When these are heated under vacuum, magnesium vapor is given off, and it crystallizes as on removable steel sleeves...
...through the transparent substance. Dr. Alexis Pincus of American Optical Co. last week announced, as a result of new X-ray studies of the atomic structure of glass, that 92% of its volume consists of nothing but oxygen caught in the interstices of a relatively scanty framework made of silicon and other elements...
Hell's Bells. "K-42-B" is a new alloy of iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, silicon, carbon and titanium which maintains extreme hardness at high temperatures. Two bell-shaped castings, one of ordinary steel, one of K-42-B, were heated red-hot in a furnace. When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell...