Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 24

-~ NEWOLRVALS NATURES PRODUET Chemists Report Synthetic| Lubricant Is Made From | Waste and Wax. the new olls have been pass all previous oily # decided forward step in the art of lubrication.” Methcds of “pure science” produced them. The makers asked first what theory showed would be the most ideal oil. The answer was something non- existent, something made of atoms hooked together in long chains, two atoms of hydrogen for one of carbon. Nature supplied all these things, but did not mix them right. Prom certain hydrocarbons called olefins there were extracted the proper- shaped chains with the two-to-one count. These were turned into oil by polymerization, a kind of thickening which stays forever put, but this oil .| was too costly. By the Associated Press. | INDIANAPOLIS, April 1. —The Stand- ! ard Oll Co. of Indiana has discovered a synthetic champaign-colored ofl ex- celling Nature's product. | So the American Chemical Scciety was informed today in a scientific pa- by four Indiana Standard men, T B w’ sullivan, V. Voorhees, A. W. Neely and R. V. Shankland. | It is made from waste, paraffin wax, | an element in natural lubricating ofi | 0 undesirable that in the past millions | of dollars were spent in getting the stuff out of ofl. ! The report says: the new ofls stand | heat with less thinning and extreme | cold with less thickening, “better than | any known natural ofl.” They are “rather expensive.” but have found a market “well suited for many uses where requirements are unusually se- | vere.” Hailed as Forward Step. “For airplane engines, shock absorb- ers of autos, gear shifts and other places where stability is very important | ‘Then the chemists applied their skill at atsm chain weaving to the lowly paraffin, Man Eats Much Lead. Civilized men are eating a surprising quantity of lead, but need not be wor- ried, according to Dr. Robert A. Kchoe of the University of Cincinnati. He re- ported recent experiments showing that the body protects itsslf from any sud- den influx of extra lead by excreting it as fast, and even at times faster, than it is taken in. A Cincinnatl medical student was the lead guinea pig. For weeks he bought two meals every time he ate, one for himself and one for the scientist to analyze for lead. Dr. Kehoe sald lead was found in milk, bread, bran, crackers, Frankfurt- ers, sausages, meat, potatoes, candy, ice cream and numerous fruits. He at- tributed the lead in bread, bran and crackers to absorption of this element by growing grains. It gets into milk in the cow's food. Candy and ice cream contain a fairly high amount, Dr. Ke- THE EVENING because of methods of com- ction. The lead in fruits to sprays and canning. Enemy of Pneumonia. In peat from the cranberry of New Jetsey the Rockefeller tute has found an enzyme giving animals immunity against one form of pneu- monia of the lungs. lnzzma are best known as the es- sentfals in digestive fluids. The peat enzyme digests part of the pneumonia germ, especially his protective overcoat or “capsule”—enough of it so that the body's natural defense against the dis- ease do the rest. The discovery is & new fleld for de- veloping immunity, but has not been brought to the stage of human use. This peat enzyme acts only on type thres penumonia. Deadliness of pneu- monia is partly because its germs, ex- actly alike in appearance, differs so widely that a remedy potent against one of them is usually ineffective against the rest of the family. Enzymes, however, exists in all living substances, so there may be a possibil- ity of finding a whole pattery for pneu- monia. The next semi-annual meeting of the chemical soclety will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., during the week of August 31. Prof. J. H. Hildebrand of sity of CalMornia and Prof. Reid of Johns Hopkins were elected councillors at large. The soclety authorized the establish- ment of a $1,000 prize by Dr. A. C. Langmuir of New York to be awarded to a man or woman “around 30 years of age a8 an encouragement to carry on_scientific activity." Directors of the soclety elected Rob- ert T. Baldwin treasurer to succeed John E. Tecple of New York, who died recently. hoe said; mercial he credit ASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931 MOTHER INTERROGATED | Quizzed by Nice Judge on Nixon- Nirdlinger Married Life. NICE, France, April 1 (#).—Mrs. James H. Nash of St. Lolus, mother of Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger, was interrogated Ml“’ trate Va- chier, who asked ? lons ird- ing her impression of her daughter's married life. Mrs. Nash is continuing regular visits to the prison where her daughter is confined l'llflflg trial on the mr.e of shooting her hi d, Fred G. Nixon- N|rdl|.n’!"l’. Philadelphia theater mag- nate, T what she termed a jealous quarrel. o- Pives-times-a-week express railway service has just been established be- tween Mukden and Pukow, China. 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