Word: sodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace, oceans of blood have been drawn from healthy volunteer donors and transfused into the veins of surgery patients and victims of a wide variety of diseases and injuries. The substance that keeps the stored blood from clotting and makes it usable in transfusions is sodium citrate. The man who perfected the citration process back in 1915 is still active, though probably not one in a hundred of the millions who owe their lives to his transfusion method could name him. Unaccountably, he has never received a Nobel Prize...
...case of the poisoned flounder, in which a three-year-old Haddon Heights, N.J. boy died of sodium-nitrite poisoning (TIME, April 6), had a sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year...
...year-old boy who was rolled into the operating room of St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley, Ill. had no history of heart trouble, so Surgeon Russell Simonetta confidently ordered an anesthetic : cyclopropane, after an intravenous injection of thiopental sodium. Within two hours, Dr. Simonetta, assisted by Dr. Henry Jacobs, had completed his surgery: cleaning and setting an elbow fractured when the patient was pinned under a tractor. Then, as he was about to be wheeled out, the boy's heart stopped...
...move it sideways. The necessary orders can be given by radio from the ground or by the rocket's own inertial guidance system. If the orders came from the ground, the problem was to get an accurate track of the rocket's course. The cloud of glowing sodium that the rocket released may have been used to reveal its position, allowing the scientists to get a visual fix and to radio the proper corrective maneuvers to the rocket...
...Moscow time, the Lunik emitted a cloud of sodium vapor. It was too low in the east for good observation in Western Europe, but several Soviet observatories reported seeing it. The cloud gave an accurate check of the course, and presently the Russians announced that Lunik II would actually hit the moon at 12:05 a.m. on Monday Moscow time (5:05 p.m. E.D.T. Sunday...