Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday federal authorities raided Space Station, a storage facility about a mile from the apartment where Salameh once lived. Witnesses saw three trucks emerge, hauling away what were thought to be containers of sulfuric acid, nitric acid and urea, chemicals that could be used to make explosives. Jersey City police would say only that they "found a lot of stuff that may be linked to Salameh" and took it to an undisclosed destination for examination...
Fine-tuned by 4 billion years of evolution, protein chemistry has a lot to recommend it. To produce Kevlar, for instance, requires vats of concentrated sulfuric acid that must be maintained at high pressure. But spiders produce silk in the open air using water as a solvent. "I am absolutely fascinated," says University of Washington materials scientist Christopher Viney, "that such an incredible material starts out as a solution in water, and all the spider does is squirt it out through a small hole. In the process, proteins that were soluble turn into insoluble fibers. Now, isn't that amazing...
This energy costs environmentally: Generating electricity involves burning fossil fuels or running a nuclear reactor or hydroelectric plant. These processes can result in many forms of pollution: acid mine drainage, oil spills, natural gas leakage, toxic waste and air pollutants. Energy efficient lighting can decrease the amount of energy needed to meet lighting electricity demand by more than 50 percent...
...model proposed by Jacob and Research Assistant Song-Miao Fan explains how unreactive bromine combines with acid particles present in human pollution and is then activated by light so it can "eat" more ozone...
...best known of the hackers accused in the MOD case, Mark Abene (alias Phiber Optik), insists that he's innocent and not a gang member. This acid- tongued media darling, featured in Esquire magazine and on the Geraldo show, offers weekly computer advice on a New York City radio program. A high school dropout, Abene, 20, still lives in the city with his parents, whose home has been raided twice by the Secret Service. In 1991 he pleaded guilty to stealing service off a 900 phone-sex line, but now denies the charge...