Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lysergic acid diethylamide was entirely legal in California until October 1966, and the mind-expanding drug made popular in these parts by ex-Prof. Timothy Leary fueled the "Hashberry" from start to finish. Publicly-advertised acid tests--group tripping experiences organized by novelist Ken ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") Kesey and his Merry Pranksters--spread the wonder drug from the province of a few enlightened intellectuals to the grasp of any who wanted to know...
...mass availability and use of the drug, further spread through the various acid factories established by master chemist Owsley Stanley, are the key to understanding what the Haight was all about, and where the not quite normative views of reality actually came from...
Then I looked at the contents label for this "baby shampoo:" water, amphoteric-19, polysorbate 20, PEG-150 distearate, sorbatan laurate, boric acid, fragrance and... benzyl alcohol...
This fall, after almost three years of study, the Food and Drug Administration will impose a ban on the use of six sulfite preservatives in fresh produce. Not waiting for the ban, many supermarkets and restaurants have already stopped using the substances, sometimes substituting diluted citric acid or lemon juice. "The ban is a step in the right direction," Attorney Mitchell Zeller of the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest concedes. "But the public is by no means protected." About 7 million lbs. of sulfites are now used in the U.S. each year, on far more than...
Recycling systems also show promise. Companies in California, for example, found that "pickling acid," which is needed in metal-processing plants to remove scale, could be mixed with zinc sulfate and used as a soil additive in citrus orchards, or mixed with air-filtered dust from scrap-steel plants to permit profitable recovery of zinc-iron compounds. Others have found that spent fluid from the manufacture of semiconductors could be used to refine old crankcase oil, helping to eliminate two disposal problems for the price...