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...narkotin in the following way: the juice was pressed out of the unripe orange, and carefully evaporated under vacuum at a very low temperature. The juice after this treatment was pure. A solution of carbonate of soda was added and the juice again treated with ether, which then was again steamed off. The result was a yellow oil containing some needle-shaped crystals. When these crystals had been treated with ultra violet rays they proved able to withstand storage, and when they were given to a porpoise suffering from scurvy in its acutest form, the porpoise was completely cured after...
...utilize the Haber-process nitrogen Dr. Bosch designed a mechanism for the industrial production of ammonia, combining air-nitrogen with hydrogen under a pressure of 200 atmospheres at a temperature of 500-600° C. in the presence of a catalyst. As manager of the Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik he built the Oppau ammonia works, without which Germany, cut off from nitrate-producing Chile, might have lost the War in 1914 by running out of munitions. (He was instrumental in perfecting the formula for making saltpetre from ammonia.) In 1917 he built the great Leuna Works to supply hard-pressed...
...turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
Whenever Englishmen have spent a dull evening at the theatre or have sat down to a plum pudding only to find it has too much baking soda, they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...small boy whose father has recently died becomes the man of the family by getting a job behind a soda-fountain, shows his mother that he, and no stepfather, will fill his father's shoes...