Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rendering the captive queens edible requires little culinary art. The ants are toasted in their own fat on thin clay roof tiles over a wood fire, then salted lightly. Since they contain formic acid, a natural preservative, they remain unspoiled in the markets, where they are displayed in large fiber baskets...
...warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame from burning kerosene and nitric acid fuels. After the eight missiles had gone up, quick-thinking Lieut. Robert F. Daly, the battery commander, dashed out of his office, ordered the remaining Nikes dropped by elevator to their 20-ft deep concrete storage pits...
Another possibility is "chemical adultery." Bacteria can already be subjected to "directed mutation" by means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
Woodward, who received this national award from the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society at presentation ceremonies Thursday, has most recently synthesized the tranquilizer "reserpine" and determined the structure of lysergic acid which is thought to be an agent in producing hallucinations...
...today. You people set up laws on what is to go in people's mouths, but you won't even set up recommendations on what goes into their minds." A survey of European educational methods would cost about $50,000, and, he added with a touch of acid, "I know you people don't fool around with peanuts like that...