Word: urea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Marshall Stephan of the University of Illinois are borne out during the next few years, they may help to send the dentist's drill the way of blacksmith tools. Last week in Science, Dr. Stephan announced that he had found a neutralizer for tooth decay: urea...
More fertile than L-O-F's own fertile laboratories are those of the spectacular plastics industry. Nine years ago Mellon Institute presented Toledo Scales Co. with a urea-formaldehyde resin which combined the best features of two earlier plastics, cellulose acetate (translucent, colorable) and phenolic resin (heat-resistant, hard). Toledo Scales formed Plaskon Co., Inc., began using its plastics to replace the porcelain-enameled iron housing of its scales. But Plaskon's uses multiplied like rabbits, soon invaded gardens sacred to glass. Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane...