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Back to School Science Tidbits
General Science History
In 1953, WD-40 was invented and recorded for the first time in the Rocket Chemical Company's logbook. It was the Water Displacement 40th test, and first successful, formula created by Norm Larsen, for a lubricating penetrating oil intented to displace water for rust prevention. In 1958, it was packaged in cans and sold to the consumer market in San Diego, California, where the company was founded in 1953. It was named WD-40, its original test designation. The name of the company Larsen founded reflects its original purpose to supply materials used in manufacture of nuclear missiles, for which WD-40 was designed to coat structural components and prevent corrosion. After wide success with its versatile, but only product, the company name was changed in 1969 to the WD-40 Company Inc.
Biology History
In 1855, the discovery of glycogen stored in the liver was communicated to the Académie des Sciences by Claude Bernard, a French physiologist. He was not able to extract glycogen in a relatively pure state until Feb 1857. (At about the same time, Victor Hensen, a German physiologist, independently used a different process to successfully isolate glycogen.) As the storage form of glucose, glycogen is barely soluble in water, and is a kind of "animal starch." It can be readily converted into glucose as needed for use in the body to release energy. In this function, it acts as stored fuel for animals just as starch is stored in plants. In the word glycogen, glyco- = sugar; and -gen = forming.
Earth Science History
In 1989, the U.S. space probe Voyager 2 ended the final planetary fly-by of its mission, leaving Neptune behind after taking photgraphs showing three complete rings and six previously unknown moons. It had also collected data showing that Neptune's atmosphere was stormy, and had a notable magnetic field oriented at an angle to its axis of rotation. The surface features of Triton, its largest moon, were also photographed.
Physics History
In 1997, the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle was announced, called the "exotic meson." Scientists speculated that the exotic meson might comprise four quarks, unlike all other known particles, which have three. The research team included physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and other facilities in the U.S. and Russia.
Chemistry History
In 1910, a U.S. patent for the Production of Ammonia was issued to Fritz Haber and Robert Le Rossignol (No. 971,501). This process could produce ammonia on a large scale directly from its component gases, hydrogen and nitrogen, by passing a mixture of them over heated finely-divided osmium metal used as a catalyst. A typical pressure of 175 atmospheres and a temperature of 550ºC could easily give an 8% by volume yield of ammonia. Although nitrogen makes up 80% of the air, as a gas it is quite unreactive. Despite its ready availability, nitrogen gas had previously been difficult to combine in a chemical form. Once nitrogen has been chemically combined in the form of ammonia, many other nitrogen compounds can be made.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
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