Word: sunburning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's Northwestern University last week announced successful tests of a "sunburnometer," a recording device to measure the intensity of the ultraviolet component of the sun's light which causes sunburn. The sunburn-causing wave lengths can be considered as the "health band" in the solar spectrum, mainly because it contains the still narrower band which produces vitamin D in the skin. Developed by Professors Walter S. Huxford and Robert Cashman, the "sunburnometer" is noi sensitive to visible light or to the short radiation on the other side of the sunburn band. It may also be used...
Skin Specialist Charles Howard White of Cambridge, England, and Physicist William Henry Crew of New York University became good friends last year while the latter spent a sabbatical year at Cambridge University. Result of that friendship was the first demonstration that "windburn" is really sunburn, proof of which they published in Science last week...
While covered with perspiration people sunburn very slowly because sweat filters out the burning actinic rays of the sun. When Dr. Whittle and Professor Crew recollected this fact, they concluded that a strong wind evaporates sweat, exposes the skin to unfiltered sunlight which causes the sunburn usually believed to be windburn. Wind by itself, they are sure, does not injure human skin...
...germicidal property of Hart light has one disadvantage. Duke Hospital surgeons must wear grotesque, hooded operating costumes, otherwise repeated exposure to the radiation would dangerously "sunburn" them. With their hoods they also wear goggles impervious to the radiation. This getup, admitted Dr. Hart, "is rather warm and uncomfortable. A more agreeable and adequate protection ... is now being developed...
While working on the hull, oat millers have also discovered curious outlets for the groats in addition to breakfast food. Oats are good for the skin and tend to preserve other foods. Special oat flour is used in soap, cosmetics, facials, sunburn preparations. Potato chips and nuts dusted with oat flour are supposed to stay fresh longer. Lard containing 5% oat flour keeps better than pure lard. A small amount of oat flour in coffee preserves the aroma. Chief objection to oat flour is that the improvement in the quality of the treated food is not great enough to overcome...