Word: sulphur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic Insulin. John J. Abel and H. Jensen of Johns Hopkins reported that they had reduced insulin (hormone which controls the body's sugar) to crystals of relatively simple chemical content. In the crystals they found 3% sulphur, considerable nitrogen, five different ameno-acids. They are working to identify remaining insulin crystal constituents. When that is done they feel that they can make synthetic insulin much cheaper than the present animal product. Insulin is one of the four hormones so far isolated. Of the others: adrenalin, thyroxin and pituitrin...
...cloud of ashes blotted the stars, the moon. Waves of heat shot from the mountain and the air choked with sulphur and acid fumes. . . . Farmyard beasts screeched. Cats, fascinated, stood fast facing Etna's black jelly until it caught their fore paws. Then the cats could not drag themselves free, could not bound away. Birds swooped inquisitively towards the moving earth, were paralyzed by the heat and vapors, tumbled down into the mess. Lava buried...
...fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove and witnessed the first, accidental process of vulcanization...
About 1866, Inventor Alex. Lagerman invented the Universal matchmaking machine. This extraordinary device automatically cut the splints, dipped them in sulphur, affixed the tip, dried the matches, packed them in cardboard wrappers. It is still in use in Jonkoping...
...Author. Pirandello is known here and abroad for the unique informality of his drama technique. Aged 61, he has written prolifically plays, poetry, short stories, though for 30 years he taught in the Rome Normal College for Women. His father was proprietor of just such a Sicilian sulphur mine as Character Salvo...