Word: stearic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Langmuir talked about stearic acid, a substance found in animal fat, which makes a monomolecular film one ten-millionth of an inch thick. This turned out to be an extremely sensitive detector for atoms of metal in water. If the metal atoms are jostled around by stirring the water, they will soon strike the underside of the film, adhere to it. The film is skimmed from the water, allowed to contract. If it contains no metal, when viewed by polarized light it will give a double refraction effect in handsome colors. But if there were only...
...polishes. Today most beeswax goes into Catholic altar candles, which must be at least 51% beeswax to meet an old Church law based on the supposed virginity of bees. No such rule governs votive candles, sold in great numbers to the faithful. These may be made of ordinary stearic acid and paraffin...
Also last week the Treasury imposed higher anti-dumping duties on electric light bulbs and sneakers from Japan, celluloid-covered thumb tacks from Germany, saponified stearic acid from The Netherlands...
...dumping threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend...