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Word: compounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Something for Lefty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Souvenir | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...immediate concern to Rochow is the improvement of water-repellent compounds. Tried on airplane windshields, they virtually eliminate the need for windshield wipers. "Sight-savar" tissues, sold commercially for the cleaning of eyeglasses, are coated with this compound. Coated tubing greatly facilitates the movement of blood in transfusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gift Suggestions | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...quick changes in such a "mixed culture" are due to external influences, e.g., changes of temperature or a new food supply. But often the disappearance of a certain microorganism is the result of intramural chemical warfare. It has been knocked out by some other organism, secreting a deadly compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...comes too late to win him a halo. On every occasion except the last, he invariably chucks science for dollars when the chips are down; in a sense, he has even deserted in the face of the enemy. The deeper objection is not that Erik is such an unstable compound, but that living with lightning makes such a dull life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Physicists | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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