Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchmen during the past month voted not for Communists, not for Socialists, but for the Popular Front, wise old Leon Blum last week told France over & over that when his Socialists take over the Government next month they will keep Capitalism. "Our task," said the next Premier, "is to extract from this social regime whatever it may still hold of justice and well being...
...inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance about twice as explosive as dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn is soaked to make cornstarch. The 300,000,000 quarts of this "steep water" which...
...soil and the quality of the stumps. Hercules, which makes dynamite, generally pulls its stumps. Newport, which makes no dynamite, generally blasts them. The stumps are then shredded and steamed. Turpentine and some pine oil are the first distillates, and the residue is treated under pressure with gasoline to extract the rosin and pine...
Heavier than any other element except uranium, protoactinium is radioactive. It is 25% rarer than radium in pitchblende. One ton of that mother ore was reduced to extract a half gram of protoactinium oxide. In a phosgene chlorinating bath this was transposed to a chloride. Using the method evolved by General Electric's famed Irving Langmuir. Dr. von Grosse spread the chloride on a tungsten filament in a vacuum, heated the filament, boiled off the chlorine, obtained his bit of pure protoactinium...
Dismayed but not losing his presence of mind. Dr. von Grosse laboriously located the crumbs by microscopic search, popped them into a tube of hydrofluoric acid where they disappeared beyond even microscopic view. From the acid. Dr. von Grosse said last week, he hopes eventually to extract the protoactinium in a single lump which may once more be seen under a magnifying glass...