Word: teaspoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speck which the General could not see was plenty for the chemists. Working with solutions measured in microlitres (7,000ths of a teaspoon), they accurately determined plutonium's chemical properties. Then they devised a complex process for separating it from the fiercely radioactive by-products of the uranium-plutonium pile at Hanford, Washington. The pile produced at least ico different byproducts. Most are unstable isotopes of familiar elements (the same periodic numbers but different atomic weights...
...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...
...Florida Agricultural Experiment Station scientists gave the public a formula for eking out sugar: mix 1 Ib. of sugar with 7 oz. water, ¼ teaspoon tartaric acid, cover, boil for 30 minutes, cool. Result is equal sweetening, cup for cup, to straight sugar...
...cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve a new drink (two jiggers of elderberry wine--"we made it ourselves," a teaspoon of arsenic, half-teaspoon of cyanide and just a pinch of strychnine is the recipe) with a kick that's decimating, and people roar at wholesale murder. If all murders were as funny as these, the human race would assassinate itself off the earth and the last man would...
...Gerstenberger of Western Reserve presented to members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months. And because many children refuse to take the nasty stuff...