Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...element fluorine (chemical symbol: F) is added to water in the form of several compounds, notably fluosilicic acid, sodium fluosilicate and sodium fluoride. For convenience, all are described simply as fluorides...
...second level, the players communicating through their mutual production and appreciation of beauty. As in good music, you get totally into it-and coming back out of that state of consciousness is like finishing a work of art or coming back from an episode of an acid or mescaline trip...
...Hair is ostensibly about Claude, the flower- child leader of the tribe, who burns his library card- instead of his draft card- as a joke. The hippies play at being marry pranksters until their innocence is shattered by Claude's symbolic departure via an acid trip. His sleep is a portent of mad America's destruction of the tribe's hippie ideal...
Perhaps yesterday's defoliators should have suggested 2,4,5-T, a potent herbicidal (plant destroying) chemical. Since 1961, American forces have dumped it on five million acres of Vietnam. That's about 12 per cent of the country-property the size of Massachusetts. The chemical-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid-kills jungle, contaminates water, lingers poisonously in the earth, and, incidentally, threatens to cause abnormalities that could eclipse the cruelties of Thalidomide. Thomas Whiteside dramatically documents the case of 2,4,5-T in the February 7, New Yorker...
...November Action Comm?? (NAC) turned yesterday's registra? ?? from dull routine to acid rock...