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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other cancer facts: Cancer blood is more alkaline than normal blood, and the more alkaline the blood the more quickly comes death. Cancer victims have more sugar in their blood, and the more sugar the quicker death. Cancer cells have relatively more potassium and less calcium than normal cells, and the greater such difference the more virulent the disease...
...carbon paper and the thin tissue which radio manufacturers need for insulation. Their factory at Elizabeth was acquired in 1929. equipped for the manufacture of cigaret paper. Their method is modern, but essentially the same as that in France. Rags are washed and beaten, transformed into paper to which calcium carbonate is added to aid combustion. Many of the mechanical features in their factory have been invented by Louis Schweitzer...
...Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...
...Some Dow products: calcium chloride, used for refrigeration; diethylaniline, used in the dye industry; industrial chloroform, used by dry-cleaners and for medicinal purposes; ethyl chloride, used in antiknock gasoline and to make rubber more flexible; ferric chloride, used in photoengraving; phenol, used in making synthetic resins like Bakelite; acetic anhydride, used in the rayon industry; sodium sulphide, used in tanning; epsom salt; acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It also manufactures insecticides, aromatic chemicals, magnesium metal, alloys. ?Chemical Markets Medal awarded by Chemical Markets magazine; Perkin Medal, by Society of Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, American...