Word: vanadium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautiously, Dr. Schroeder pointed out that he was not simplistically laying all the blame for high blood pressure and atherosclerosis on cadmium and chromium. Other exotic elements such as vanadium, zirconium and niobium, all "abundant in the human body," influence the level of fats in the blood...
Peace Profiteering. No industrial group has been more affected than metals. In short supply are nickel, molybdenum, vanadium and, most of all, copper. The Government has requisitioned 18% of the copper industry's production. In steel, high-priority Government orders have compelled Allegheny Ludlum to convert its special-metals subsidiary almost entirely to defense production and to delay deliveries of alloys to civilian customers in the transportation, construction, aircraft, electricity and even nuclear-energy fields. Instead of shutting down its Christy Park Works and laying off 500 workers, as it had announced last year, U.S. Steel Corp...
...Zambia and Chile, the world's three major copper-producing countries. At the same time, supplies of other nonferrous metals are tightening, and prices are rising. In the last 18 months, tin has gone from $1.22 to $1.75 per lb., tungsten from $1.40 to $2.03, vanadium from $2.45 to $3.40. Mercury is so short that badmen in the Southwest, aping the Atlanta copper capers, have in the last four months stolen an estimated $70,000 worth of mercury from unattended gas-well meters...
...industry, the byproducts of a cleanup often offset part of the costs. Los Angeles County's oil refineries strip smelly hydrogen sulphide from crude oil, convert it to 450 tons a day of marketable sulphur. Boston Edison Co. mines vanadium from its oil-fired smoke, exports it to Belgium. For the nation, air and water cleanups mean a huge saving in dollars as well as in health. An air cleanup alone would save $11 billion a year that is now wasted on extra cleaning, painting, corrosion and damage to crops and property...
...kinetic, foresighted businessman who dabbled successfully in fields as diverse as oil speculating and orchid growing (at one time he owned one of the world's largest orchid nurseries), but found his niche among rare metals, promoting new uses for radium in medicine, new processes for extracting vanadium (a steel strengthener) and new markets for molybdenum, a high-strength metal of the jet age; of leukemia; in Manhattan...