Template:Did you know nominations/Sylvia Stoesser
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The result was: promoted by TheAwesomeHwyh 00:47, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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Sylvia Stoesser
Sylvia Stoesser
- ... that Sylvia Stoesser (pictured), the first woman chemist at Dow Chemical, was called a "nasal chemist" because she could identify the composition of a mixture from its smell? Source: Karpiuk, Robert S. (1984). Dow research pioneers : recollections 1888-1949. Midland, Michigan: Pendell Pub., p. 112. "Sylvia was called the nasal chemist, because she would often identify the components of an unknown mixture produced in the laboratory by simply sniffing it."
- ALT1:... that Sylvia Stoesser (pictured), the first woman chemist at Dow Chemical, developed a dry cleaning fluid using perchloroethylene as a non-flammable and non-explosive alternative to naphtha? Source: Karpiuk, Robert S. (1984). Dow research pioneers : recollections 1888-1949. Midland, Michigan: Pendell Pub., p. 248. "Dr. Sylvia Stoesser studied non-flammable, non-explosive dry cleaning solvents, particularly perchloroethylene ... this work was highly competitive because the naphtha suppliers... did not want to lose the solvent business."
- Reviewed: E. B. Pinniger
Created by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk). Self-nominated at 17:51, 29 July 2019 (UTC).
Date (moved from userspace on July 29), length and hooks all check out. Offline sources accepted in good faith. I think the first hook is the most interesting of the two. Good to go. — Hunter Kahn 18:29, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
