Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle-later named the Krebs cycle-in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle, in which fats are used as carbon sources for cell growth. Krebs, a naturalized British citizen, was knighted...
...jacket prepared in the dental laboratory from a wax impression is carefully cemented on. Capping even one tooth can take three or four sittings. In bonding, there is no drilling, no anesthetic is used, and several teeth can be bonded during a single visit to the dentist. Diluted phosphoric acid is applied to the natural tooth, etching microscopic pores into the enamel. Next comes a coat of liquid plastic to seal the tooth. Then a paste composed of plastic and finely ground quartz, glass or silica is patted on in thin layers tinted to match the natural teeth and molded...
Coach Johnny Lee was particularly pleased with the team's performance, with many individuals faring quite well. "Each guy got an acid test," Lee said, happy that his team had proved it had the mettle to excel in the East this season Harvard actually had a chance to win the competitive tournament but fell just short...
...State Alexander Haig against back-corridor White House grousing over his performance are, if nothing else, enervating and diverting. Budget Chief David Stockman's unusual excursion into journalistic confession raises a credibility cloud that may be no bigger than a man's hand but capable of yielding acid rain...
Perhaps the most popular new folk remedy of modern times is ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal...