Keith in Valparaiso, Indiana, grew up hearing his mother call the refrigerator compartment the icebox, a term that isn’t just a family quirk. Before electric refrigerators became common, especially before the 1930s, an icebox was a wooden cabinet...
Martha explains how experiments with dead frogs and live wires led to the invention of the battery, and inspired a couple of familiar English words.
manto n.— «Deposits of copper-cobalt-manganese-zinc mineralization at Boleo occur within widespread, stratiform clay-rich horizons or beds known as “mantos” (manto is a Spanish term used in mining parlance for a general...