Word: ortho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...
Woodward's process, consisting of 30 steps, begins with ortho toluidine and ends with a compound close to cortisone. A process recently completed by Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Hans Heymann, research fellow in Chemistry, takes four steps and adds a vital oxygen atom to the molecule...