Word: whitish
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...woman brought out another tray of weeds and rice husks. A fine whitish powder covered the bottom...
...breed in which the cancer strain was particularly high. Bits of cancer tissue from infected high-strain mice were sliced, put in gravity-defying centrifuges. The materials thus separated from malignant cancer cells were put back in the centrifuge for a second whirl. What was left was a whitish, dustlike powder-grim carrier of the virus...
...vessels which would have disappeared in the last few weeks of a normal pregnancy. In the unlucky ones, the vessels never go away, causing partial or total blindness. At three months, the child's eyes, still the same dull blue they were at birth, move jerkily, and a whitish tissue may be seen behind the pupils. Boston Eye Specialist Dr. Theodore L. Terry believes that exposure to too-early light may be the cause, recommends keeping the baby in the dark...
...soft, whitish metal, like silvery cheese, lithium is not only the lightest metal but the lightest known solid: it will float on gasoline. (Cork and balsa wood only seem lighter: they are pocketed with air.) Long known in the laboratories for its instability, lithium tarnishes almost instantly in air, decomposes water at ordinary temperatures. It owes its new usefulness to this chemical alacrity, and to the dogged research of a small company (The Lithium Co., Newark, N.J.) which now has some big customers...
...airman's form of trench foot was reported last week in the Washington Star: flyers may develop swollen, whitish hands or faces which take months to get well if they whip off masks or gloves for a few moments to make fine adjustments at high altitudes. The accident happens so often that many U.S. doctors in England have made it their chief research...