Word: acidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge executed an order raising the tariff on sodium silicofluoride from 25% of its foreign value to 25% of its market value in the U. S. The chemical is used for acid rinses in laundries and for manufacturing enamel ware and opalescent glass. The U. S. consumption is some 5,000,000 lbs. per annum, of which about half is imported, mainly from Denmark...
...fumigate her. The crew fastened doors and hatches. All was quiet below. The boat rocked a little; chains scraped; water tattled against the hull. Then a sweetish odor came upon the hidden men, like the taste of peach stone kernels. Seven of them collapsed, limply, dead from the hydrocyanic acid gas used for the fumigation...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...
Asphyxiation: Slow, since little acid spilled due to horizontal position; but absence of air hose rendered slow asphyxiation sure...
...Ostrow, Poland, a Mme. Niklos and her 4-year-old child and a M. Graf were recently poisoned with prussic acid "by a person or persons unknown...