Stories by D. H. Killeffer

The Laboratory Problems Which Are Involved In Practically All Manufacturing Processes Are Frequently Too Big For One Business To Handle Alone. Result: Foster D. Snell, Inc. Is Ready To Take On a Little of Everything

If Properly Equipped, Staffed and Operated, The Pilot Plant Can Point the Way to Bring A New Industrial Process Safely Across the Gap of Uncertainty Existing Between the Laboratory Stage and Full-Scale Production

The Science of Odors Is Still in Its Infancy, With Its Greatest Potentialities Yet Unknown. But Already Such Practices as Deodorizing, Masking of Odors, and Faint Perfuming Have Achieved Much in Extending the Utility and Stability of Many Products of Industry

Capable of Turning Out Unprecedented Volumes of Oxygen Daily, Projected Plants Will Make Available to All Industry Vast Quantities of That Gas, of Adequate Purity, at a Fraction of Present Cost

How Can Full Use be Made of Available Agents for Protection of Crops Against Destruction by Insects and Disease? Can Government-Sponsored Research Give the Answer?

Basically Simple and Extremely Practical, Compression Distillation is One of Those Processes that Prompts the Unanswerable Question of "Why Hasn't It Been Done Before?" By Complete Heat Utilization, the Method Produces Pure Water Quickly and Economically, Yet Involves No Cooling, Uses Little Space, and Demands a Minimum of Attention

Chemical Marriage of Sand and Hydrogen has Produced a New Family--the Silicones. In Liquid, Rubber, or Resin Form, These Unique Hybrids Combine the Heat Resistance of Quartz with a Variety of Other Special Capabilities Including Water Repellency, Insulation, and Lubrication

Aided by the Fats Shortages of Two World Wars, "Soapless" Soaps are Moving in Rapidly on Tasks Long Regarded as Soap's Own Province: More than 300 Wetting Agents, Detergents, and Emulsifiers are Now Made. Many are Specialized; Others, General Purpose

In Searching for an Answer to Their Marginal Economic Status, Wood Distillers have Uncovered Some Highly Interesting Wood-Tar Products. What Can be Done With Them, How to Recover Them, and Various Other Problems Make Question Marks of These Complex Chemicals

Like the Weather--Insects, Rodents, Weeds, and Other Crop Criminals have Long had Little Done About Them. Now, Spurred by War and Famine, Chemistry Turns Tongue-Twisting Terms in to Literally Down To-Earth Products that Protect Plan ts Against Nature's Scalawags

Raw Materials and the Ingenuity to Use Them are the Fundamental Wealth of a People. Depletion, a Constant Threat to Some Materials, Emphasizes the Potentialities of Wood as a Chemical Storehouse. Chemurgy--the Ingenuity Factor--is Expanding Now, Holds Great Promise

Of the Various Methods of Protection Against the Ravages of Corrosion, Inhibitive Treatment Offers Simplicity and Wide Applicability. Corrosion Control Now More Necessary Than Ever as Metals Supplies Dwindle

Purification of Liquids and Gases, Selective Recovery of Valuable Materials, and the Removal of Undesirable Substances from Chemical Compounds, are Problems that Often may be Solved with Ion Exchange Resins. Both Industry and the Laboratory Find These Resins Valuable

Now Produced in Industrial Quantities, Life-Saving Protein Nutritional Elements Provide Medical Science with a New Weapon. Chemical Technology Removes Amino Acids from the Test-Tube Stage by Breaking Down Food Proteins with Acids, Alkalies, or Enzymes

A Little Research into Effective Means of Utilizing Research Reveals that Small Businesses Can Put Themselves on a Par With Big Business By Making Use of Available Facilities. Government Research Must Benefit All and Hence Must Fail in at Least One of its Avowed Purposes

Does the Atomic Bomb Indicate the future Mass Destruction of Every Living Thing? Or, Preperly Controlled, Will Its Limitless Energy be Utilized and Harnessed to Serve Mankind as has Electricity a nd Water? The Next Five to Ten Years May Possibly Provide the Answer

Design of Boilers for Ships of the Future May be Radically Affected by Present and Continuing Work of Chemists on Methods of Boiler Water Treatment. Proper Steaming Conditions Can Be Maintained Only if the Chemical Balance of the Boiler Water is Suited to the Installation

Forgetting for the Moment Today's Pressing Question of Tires, Consideration is Given to the Place of Synthetic Rubber in Mechanical Parts for Post-War Vehicles. Temperatures Encountered in Operation, Stresses Imposed, and Other Factors Must Be Known if the Designer is to Take Full Advantage of the Mechanical Qualities of the Synthetics

By Harnessing Forces that Act Outside the Bounds of Human Senses, and Applying Electronic Amplification, Chemical Control Methods Have Been Highly Refined. The Infra-Red Technique is Not Yet in Wide Use, but Successful Results So Far Point to Broad Future Fields

Kerosine Lamps, Exploding Because of Gasoline in the Burning Oil, Paved the Way for the Development of the Gasoline Engine. At First there was a Surplus of Fuel; then Chemists were Hard' Put to Produce Enough Efficient Fuel to Meet Demands of Automobiles and Airplanes

Although Chemical Manufacture in the United States Was Carried on by the Earliest Settlers, the Real Beginnings of the Chemical Industry in America Must be Placed in About the Middle of the 19th Century

Chemical Industry Provides the Base from Which Spring the Marvels of Metallurgy. Important to Tomorrow's Applications of Metals Is the Developing Knowledge of the Rarer Elements and Their Value in Extending the Usefulness of the More Common Metals in Use Today

Important Contributions have Been Made to the Great Forward Strides in Speed and Comfort by The Railroads in The Last Ten Years. Chemistry has Helped in the Achievement of Lighter Rolling Stock. Lessening of Boiler Scale, More Efficient Lubrication, Better Fuels, and Air Conditioning

Mechanical Engineering Looks to Chemistry, Chemistry Looks to Mechanical Engineering, and Between the Two They have Produced an Industry Second to None in the World. Chemical Production Requires Equipment that Can be Provided Only by Close Co-Operation With Fabricators