Word: strontium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes destroys the crystalline structure of luminescent pigments, but one way that they can be dispersed, crudely ground, through oil or varnish to form paints is with the help of wetting agents (TIME, Jan. 5). Many of the phosphorescent pigments now manufactured in the U.S. are sulfides, chiefly of strontium, zinc, barium, calcium, cadmium, etc.; and a large group have formulas that are military secrets. The fluorescent pigments are chiefly beryllium and zinc silicates, cadmium borates, calcium and magnesium tungstates, and organic dyes...
...Strontium of the calcium group sinks to the bones, has been used to treat cancers which migrate from breast to bone...
Chemicals: Ammonia and ammonium compounds, chlorine, dimethylaniline (for explosives), diphenylamine (for smokeless powder), nitric acid, nitrates, nitrocellulose, soda lime, sodium acetate, strontium chemicals (for explosives), sulfuric acid...
...hoped that the reader ever will; he writes: "I . . . drank large amounts of various chemicals in solution, some of which have since been used in medicine, though generally in smaller doses than I took. I think I hold the record for the amounts of ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure of Men to Carbon Dioxide," he reprints his Lancet article on an experiment he made in connection with the Thetis disaster. This study, as its author points out, has both stylistic and factual interest for the average reader...