Word: sulfured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineers last week estimated that a ton of chlorine goes into making a tank, two tons in the making of a plane (in its plastics, paint & varnish, degreasing chemicals, rubber, some alloys). The new process, announced by Chemical Engineers Arthur Warren Hixson and Alvan Howard Tenney of Columbia University: sulfur, through burning and catalysis, is changed to sulfur trioxide gas which is then infiltrated through common salt. The resulting compound (sodium chlorosulfinate) is decomposed by heat to produce salt cake (sodium sulfate) and chlorine. Salt cake, of which the U.S. has imported 40% of its supplies from Germany, is vital...
...rubber making, where they help the dispersal of pigments and vulcanizing sulfur through latex...
Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
...Some plant injuries blamed on insects, drought, sun scorch, etc., have recently been traced by Stone's successors at Massachusetts State College to sulfur-dioxide leaks from household refrigerators and large refrigerating plants...
...they gave the animals huge doses of sulfa drugs, or of common poisons, the scientists found that five basic substances present in normal blood promptly dwindled or disappeared. The vital chemicals: 1) ascorbic acid (vitamin C); 2) choline, a nitrogen compound, a constituent of nerve tissue; 3) cystine, a sulfur-containing compound found in hair and finger nails; 4) glycine, a protein derivative found in bile; 5) glucuronic acid, an organic acid found in urine...