Word: vanadium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Copper Blue Blood. While Professor Ernst Bayer of Tubingen University was still a graduate student, he began to study the ability of marine animals to concentrate some of the rare metals found in sea water. The sea squirt, Phallusia mamillata, for example, has 1,000,000 times more vanadium in its blood than the water it lives in; the deep blue blood of the octopus has 100,000 times as much copper. If sea squirts and octopuses can do the trick, asked Bayer, why shouldn't human chemists...
...pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington...
...tenants were drawn there by the compelling fact that the building was on Manhattan's most convenient site-handy to the trains from Westchester and the Lexington Avenue subway, which would deposit employees right on the corporate doorstep. Among the tenants were U.S. corporations ranging from Aluminum to Vanadium, branch offices of Canadian, British, Italian, Mexican and Japanese companies. And, of course, Pan American World Airways, which has leased one-quarter...
...George A. Roberts, 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co. of Latrobe, Pa., filling posts left vacant by the recent death of James P. Gill. A Carnegie Tech graduate and an expert in metallurgy, Dr. Roberts was previously the company's vice president for technology, directed the development of important heat-resistant alloys for use in the skins of missiles and supersonic aircraft...