Word: sodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night, Elizabeth Parsons had a few drinks to calm her nerves, and an R.A.F. doctor gave her sodium amytal as a sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved...
...R.A.F. doctor who administered the sodium amytal conceded that, administered in conjunction with alcohol at a time of emotional unbalance, it could have "an unusual effect." Another doctor testified that such a dose could well have left her incapable of knowing what she was doing...
...Calif., coinventor and manufacturer of AD-X2. He confessed that he was really a "catskinner" (tractor operator) who had stumbled on to his secret formula and was bewildered by science, bureaucracy and his own invention. He refused to reveal the secret formula, but identified the main ingredients as anhydrous sodium sulphate and "a slightly basic, nearly anhydrous magnesium sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses, and the other you give to people." Ritchie said he didn...
Like Britain's Cumberland station, North American's plant will also be able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
Thompson kept adding to its products now makes 80, boasts that the only one it ever had to drop was the automobile crank. It has helped develop such things as aircraft valves containing liquid sodium inside as a coolant; an engine valve cap that turns slightly with each strike, thus eliminating warping and pitting; an alcohol-water injection system to get more power out of gasoline; simplified valve tappets; improved fuel pumps and piston rings...