Word: liquidizer
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Sometimes this reclaimed solid crude is further reduced to a liquid latex. It is kneaded in water with a soapy "dispersing agent" until the rubber molecules lose their attraction for each other and disperse to form an even suspension in the water. From such latexlike dispersions are made heavy, industrial rubber gloves and other dipped articles, as well as rubberized fabrics like raincoats...
Monner confines crushed dry ice in a special chamber of the gun. There it becomes part liquid, part gas, maintains a constant pressure. The trigger unlooses the gas by a valve, to shoot lead pellets through a regulation barrel. By regulating the length of time the valve is open, the penetration power of bullets can be controlled, Monner says, to a finer degree than with powder. One 5? loading is good for 2,000 shots...
...Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
...plant no objection was raised to saying that the Bell Airacobra was driven by Allison liquid-cooled motors; but at Bell Aircraft itself the engine could not be named...
...chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison gases, five smoke agents for screening, and the trustworthy incendiary, thermite. The poison gases: mustard, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, chlorpicrin, diphosgene, phosgene and chlorine. Mustard gas is popular with high commands. It rises, colorless, from a soupy, machine-oil sort of liquid, burns a man inside...