Word: acidity
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...scaffold, where a crowd that had paid as much as $300 each for the pleasure of seeing him hang heard him cry, Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier who claimed he had killed Booth, in defiance of orders that he be taken alive, explained that he had acted on God's authority. "Providence directed me," he said...
Soon after Sputnik, Dr. Winitz began working on an amino-acid diet with Dr. Wallace L. Chan, a NASA consultant on synthetic foods. Now, with a $400,000 grant from NASA, they are continuing their research at Vacaville. There, each week, they make 30 gallons of their Human Diet...
Brewing the stuff is no simple matter. First, the water must be distilled, redistilled and further purified to remove all contaminants. Then each of 18 amino acids must be weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...
...shares your bed? I hope you're not still a virgin at 20." A few more remarks like that and her husband has had enough of her unpredictable bitchery. "What are you trying to do?" he asks. "Ruin your evening," she answers swiftly, each syllable etched in acid...
...parts of the DNA molecule that contain a few items of chemical instructions needed for metamorphosis. The parts become suddenly active; they swell up, forming visible puffs which show that the hormone has told them to do their stuff. Dutifully they release their information by forming "messenger RNA" (ribonucleic acid) that diffuses into the body of the cell and manufactures the protein enzymes that bring about metamorphosis. Then the puffs disappear, and the chromosomes wait for other hormones to come along and tell them to release other items of information...