Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imbued with noble sentiments as Viscount Halifax, professed that British rule was guiding India through evolution to eventual dominionhood in the British Empire. But last week it appeared that evolution had turned into revolution. India held not only jailed prophets but also homemade bombs, pistols and bottles of acid in the hands of terrorists. From the western world the Indians were learning the technique of violence, not the technique of self-government...
Essentials of the complicated new process for extracting the vanadium: the phosphate rock is dissolved in sulfuric acid; then nitric acid is added to precipitate the vanadium in powder, then cake form. This will be marketed to alloy-steel makers as vanadium pentoxide...
...Valko and Mr. DuBois "revived" them: They used other soapless soaps, based on sulfuric acid, in which the active part of the molecule is negative. The positive and negative charges of the two soaps neutralized each other and the bacteria, thus freed of the soapy narcosis, went on with their life (i.e., propagated...
...ordinary washing this neutralization does not occur, and the narcosis amounts virtually to death. The very thin film of soap over each bacterium is thus far more effective in germicidal action than carbolic acid, which must consume the bacteria in order to kill them...
...began to compile his own. He wrote a whole book on the human hand, carrying around a batch of wrist and finger bones in his pocket and earnestly examining them at odd moments on subways and in restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human leg that an unidentified medical student had left in his taxi...