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Artificial Life. In 1870, Scientist Huxley declared it would be "the height of presumption" to suppose that chemists would not some day be able to bring together the constituents of protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between...
Fuel Acids. Chemist H. C. Mougy of the General Motors research staff pointed out that the U. S. oil industry could save 50 millions per annum in refining costs if motor designers could safeguard motors against fuels containing a higher percentage of sulphur than is now left in good grade gasoline. Motor designers aim to protect motors from sulphuric acid corrosion by eliminating condensation of the water vapor from burning fuel...
...microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer observers, saw the ooze exuding from the coccid bodies...
...Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
April 18-19--Mason and Dixon Championships at White Sulphur Springs...