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Chemical Warfare. Termite soldiers are so specialized for war that they cannot even feed themselves, must be crammed by workers. Their fantastic defense mechanism is designed solely for use against their chief enemy, ants. The soldiers' enlarged heads (see cut, p. 38) contain glands which produce a viscous chemical. Some times it is squirted forth in a gooey stream which entangles the attackers, and some times confuses and repels them by its odor...
...simulate blood vessels. He dropped a bullet in the largest tube, attached the mouth of the tube to a spigot, turned on the water. The bullet pushed along through the smaller tubes; when the water was turned on full force, the bullet spurted out across the room. A viscous substance like blood, said Waddie, can push a bullet out with greater force than water...
...first textile made from a vegetable protein.* Mr. Ford was presented with a tasteful necktie one-third of which was woven from the soybean fabric, the rest of silk and wool. Protein is extracted from soybean meal in saline solution, then mixed with other chemicals to make a viscous liquid, which is squirted into hair-sized filaments. The spun thread has a pleasant feel, fairly good tensile strength, takes dyes readily. Its intended use: automobile upholstery...
...virus molecule's diameter is just under the visibility limit of the most powerful microscopes. Dr. Langmuir made a molecule that anyone could see with the naked eye by adding acetic acid to a dilute solution of sodium silicate. After a while the solution became viscous and turned into a jelly. The molecules had combined to form bigger ones, the process speeding along in geometrical ratio until one super-giant molecule filled the entire container...
...underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal...