Word: silicones
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...certain student ably upheld Harvard's scholastic tradition on the radio at the Hayden Planetarium this last weekend. Asked what the common ingredients of glass were, he replied. "Silicon Dioxide!" The radio-interviewer in the quiz was so impressed with this sign of crudition that he awarded the Harvard man the prize, although the correct answer was and soda, and time...
...odorless, tasteless, impervious to fire and corrosion by acids. Because of its aluminum and silicon content, it has been named "Alsifilm...
...Clay is a mixture of mineral debris (usually oxides of silicon and aluminum) which absorbs water molecules in chemical combination...
...Robert Hatfield, world-famous English metallurgist and inventor of manganese and silicon steels, betrayed unscientific traces of superstition while presenting a gift to President Conant...
...Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...