Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...lack of rainfall. The Russian soil, starting at the city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga and proceeding northwest, is at first semidesert, then improves to chestnut soil (dark brown soil), then to rich chernozem (fertile black soil), and finally declines to thin podsols (grey, leached, acid soil) - see map. Russia's huge long swatch of chernozem is the biggest in the world, but most of it lies north of the latitude of Bangor, Me. (45th parallel) which means that its yield is much lower than the same type of land in the U.S.'s Midwestern...
Over the Shoulder. Smith's fuming rivals appointed the Chicago Sun-Times's acid-tongued Carleton ("Bill") Kent, president of the White House Correspondents Association, to tell Smith what they thought of him. What Kent said they thought was terse, pithy, unprintable. Smith, however, was unabashed, and, his rivals soon were claiming, unreformed...
Farmers are paid for milk according to its butterfat content. Dairies use a complicated test in which they spike a milk sample with sulphuric acid and then centrifuge the solution three times. The acid and the heat induced by its action break down the heavy non-fat molecules. By centrifuging, the fat globules are forced to the top where they can be measured...
...containing two detergents. He claims that the detergents quickly dissolve all but the butterfat, which then floats to the top. Farmers may soon be able to check the dairies' fat readings with Schain's test without the danger of corroding their sinks and charring their hands with acid. What's more, says Dr. Schain, the farmer's wife may use the same detergent solution to wash the windows...