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Standard Oilmen are proud of their "cat cracker" because it is the first to operate continuously. Instead of passing oil vapors through a catalytic bed or chamber, as in older devices, the process uses a powdered catalyst so fine that it acts like a liquid, is carried along by the very vapors it cracks. As a powder, the catalyst exposes the maximum surface to the reaction...
...that each should be given two ounces daily. Lips can be moistened, the mouth rinsed with sea water, but "there is no doubt that large draughts of sea water cause death and even small amounts may prejudice a man's chance of survival on a long voyage. . . . The liquid contained in the lifeboat's compass should never be drunk: it is poisonous...
...crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into the types of fiber needed for war uses...
Smoke & Flame. Near Aberdeen, at the Chemical Warfare Service's Edgewood Arsenal, the correspondents saw some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...
Last week a tone of desperate urgency crept into official pleas for more industrial and residential conversion from oil to coal for heating. James C. Richdale, chairman of the New England Council Liquid Fuel Committee, said: "We've got to quit talking about 75% [of normal fuel oil needs] we've got to tell the truth." The truth was that consumers may not get 50% of their needs...