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cellophane
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cellophane thin, transparent sheet or tube of regenerated cellulose . Cellophane is used in packaging and as a membrane for dialysis...There are several steps in the preparation of cellophane from raw cellulose. The cellulose is first treated...
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SIC 3081 Unsupported Plastics Film and Sheet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...Briston called regenerated cellulose, or cellophane, "the most important development in...received his first patents in 1911. Cellophane was initially used for the packaging...follows: "The commercialization of cellophane in the 1920s revolutionized the flexible...
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Noodle in Asia, The
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...noodles or fen si (literally translated 'powdered silk') or cellophane noodles, bean threads, glass noodles, or vermicelli are...rehydrated for quick eating. Harusame or 'spring rain' or cellophane noodles are made from Japanese potato starch or Chinese style...
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SIC 2672 Coated and Laminated Paper, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...paper mills. The pressure-sensitive products group included cellophane tape, almost all labels, and a variety of other pressure...deal of diversity. Pressure-sensitive products ranged from cellophane tape to shrinkable labels to sealing tapes. Advances in adhesive...
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Virgil Thomson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Gertrude Stein's free-association prose, received its premiere in Hartford, CT in 1934. An all-black cast dressed in cellophane costumes sang a virtually unintelligible libretto, and Thomson's music, derived from church hymns and folk sources, utilized...
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dialysis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...persons suffering from renal failure. In such machines, blood is circulated on one side of a semipermeable membrane (often cellophane) while a special dialysis fluid is circulated on the other side. The dialysis fluid must be a solution that closely matches...
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carbon disulfide
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...used solvent, e.g., for rubber, and is used to treat alkali cellulose in the viscose process (a source of rayon and cellophane). Carbon disulfide reacts with chlorine in the presence of a catalyst to form carbon tetrachloride.
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Adhesives
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...invented in the 1920s by Richard Drew, another chemist at the 3M company. Drew found a way to coat Du Pont's newly invented cellophane tape with a thin layer of adhesive to make it the all-purpose aid present in most households today. Variations of the original...
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Dialysis
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Netherlands in 1941, Kolff moved to Kampen where, in spite of wartime shortages, he constructed a dialysis machine using cellophane tubing and beer cans. He first used his device on a human patient in March 1943 and, although all but one of the 15 patients...
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White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...department for Harper's . His books include The Lady Is Cold (1929) and The Fox of Peapack (1938), poems; Alice Through the Cellophane (1933), witty criticism of modern trends; Every Day Is Saturday (1934), collecting New Yorker editorial essays; Quo...
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