Word: sulphureous
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...Beaumont, Texas, last week a U.S. Coast Guard board of inquiry sought to solve the mystery of the Marine Sulphur Queen. A 523-ft. converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew...
...first brewed as a remedy for tropical stomach disorders and an antidote for scurvy. Coca-Cola began as a headache remedy. Biotherm, a popular European secret beauty preparation that is now spreading to U.S. cosmetic counters, was born when a French physician discovered plankton on the water of his sulphur bath at Aix-les-Bains. The first four-gallon barrel of Worcestershire sauce brewed up in Lea & Perrins' chemist shop tasted so bad that it was relegated to the cellar; only later was it retasted and found appealing (the length of time it sat is part of Lea & Perrins...
Somewhere between the farm and the home refrigerator, fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are almost sure these days to get a scientific going over. Antiseptic washes, ultraviolet light, sulphur dust, gamma rays-the possibilities are almost endless, but the purpose is almost always the same: to stop decay caused by fungi and bacteria...
Memphis to South America. The cargo that today's rivermen supervise is often exotic: wine gurgles along in stainless steel tanks, and other specially designed barges carry molten sulphur at 280°, methane chilled to -258°, and chlorine under 250 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. The Saturn missile stages designed to travel faster than sound move in and out of Huntsville, Ala., by river...
Hayter. now 60. started out to be a scientist rather than an artist. He graduated from London University with honors in chemistry, did research in organic sulphur compounds, worked in Iran for three years with an oil company. When he decided in his early 20s that he wanted to devote his life to art. he found his knowledge of chemistry enabled him to bring new techniques to the old, nearly moribund art of etching...