Word: varnish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sodium chloride, common salt) the U.S. now makes about 2,200 tons of liquid chlorine a day. But demand is far outstripping supply: engineers last week estimated that a ton of chlorine goes into making a tank, two tons in the making of a plane (in its plastics, paint & varnish, degreasing chemicals, rubber, some alloys). The new process, announced by Chemical Engineers Arthur Warren Hixson and Alvan Howard Tenney of Columbia University: sulfur, through burning and catalysis, is changed to sulfur trioxide gas which is then infiltrated through common salt. The resulting compound (sodium chlorosulfinate) is decomposed by heat...
...hall was cut up into six rooms, with two floors, and a staircase on the outside of the building. For a time, these rooms were used for undergraduate recitations, but the building was soon deserted again because several of the rooms were so damp that when a coat of varnish was put on them it refused to dry. But on the top floor were stored the specimens used in Dr. Warren's class in anatomy, and various other biological exhibits in the form of a museum. Few student rooms around the Yard were not decorated by skulls or bones from...
...Biggest consumer is the paint & varnish industry. Best paint is made from relatively costly, drying linseed oil. Soybean oil is semi-drying, always leaves the paint film slightly sticky. But, mixed with linseed oil, soybean oil makes a cheaper paint good for many purposes. Chemists recently learned how to treat soybean oil so that it takes on the properties of another important but hard-to-get paint ingredient, Chinese tung...
...Such poisoning, say the doctors, is unlikely. "There is some danger, however, of flakes of the radium paint on the control handles sticking to the hands and later being transferred to the mouth." Preventive: all control handles should have their radium paint covered with a coat of shellac or varnish...
...Save the surface and you save all,' a group of varnish-makers used to advertise, and may still for all we know. 'Make peace and save the world,' Colonel Lindbergh told the Senate committee. Save the shell of the city and automatically you save its core and spirit; save the bodies of men and women and it follows that their hearts are safe and free. There may be something to be said for the Colonel's point of view. A tie with the dictators would undoubtedly be rather one-sided, but life under it could easily...