Word: midgley
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
...only effect of the gas on humans is to produce a "kind of intoxication." Said Experimenter Midgley: ''The best way I can describe this sensation is to say that it is deadening. Instead of the exhilaration such as is credited to alcohol, these fumes do not arouse a desire to sing or to recite poetry...
...Midgley's refrigerant, a combination of fluorine, chlorine, carbon, was developed in a General Motors laboratory with the aid of Dr. A. L. Henne, Belgian chemist...