Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...circumstances of Biko's death were extremely suspicious. The Woods family had also been angered and alarmed by a malicious prank that hospitalized their daughter Mary, 6. The child had received in the mail a STEVE BIKOT shirt that had evidently been dipped in some kind of acid; when she tried the shirt on, her face and eyes were burned. Most of all, Woods had grown restless and despondent at the prospect of spending endless days "sitting around, moldering, playing golf and chess...
...important early warning sign of prostatic cancer has been recognized for 40 years: a marked rise in the bloodstream of an enzyme-acid phosphatase-produced by the prostate gland. As the disease progresses, the level continues to rise. The challenge has been to develop tests sensitive and reliable enough to detect the increase before the cancer spreads. Now. in a sudden spurt of research activity at several medical centers, at least two promising new techniques are being tested...
Comparable results have been obtained at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. There, scientists use the reaction in an electric field between the patient's blood and serum from immunized rabbits to determine acid phosphatase levels...
...stage, rather than in the studio, where most groups hibernate. In some ways, however, the Dead seem stuck in the debris of the late '60s; their music has the raw, unreconstructed sound of earlier groups, and they retain their oft-publicized position as the high priests of acid. Despite the death by excess in everything, particularly alcohol, of the immortal Pigpen (Ron McKernan) back in 1973, the Dead roll on, forever, it seems. Garcia (Captain Trips himself and the director of the movie), Lesh, Weir, kreutzman and Hart have played together for so long that they have developed the kind...
Fluoride ions work into the crystalline structure of the tooth surface and make the structure a more perfect and thus more stable crystal. The tooth is therefore less susceptible to decay by acid attack. (Tooth decay is largely caused by acid dissolution of enamel. Acid is a byproduct of food decay...