Word: acidity
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...middle of his third day in the box, Dr. Douthwaite was more than ready to concede that there was "a possible alternative view" to his original contention. Under Lawrence's acid crossexamination, the crown's second expert, Dr. Michael George Corbett Ashby, was likewise forced to admit that the possibility of death by natural causes "cannot be ruled...
...possible exotic fuels. Paintlike slurries of powdered aluminum or magnesium, suspended in some combustible liquid, contain a lot of energy. In the case of rocket motors, which do not depend on atmospheric oxygen, both the fuel and the oxidizer material with which the fuel combines can be varied. Nitric acid is popular because it is a convenient form of oxygen and yields additional energy when it decomposes. Liquid fluorine is theoretically the best oxidizer, but it is fantastically corrosive and hard to handle. Some material may be discovered that yields fluorine conveniently in the way that nitric acid yields oxygen...
...long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock of sulphuric acid beneath Abbott's chair. The deadly fumes began to rise...
...three principals are surrounded throughout most of the evening by a trio of consulting doctors. One of them, Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, ranks among Shaw's most acid-edged portraits. As amusingly acted by James Spiegler, Sir Ralph is a bombastic loudmouth full of saws about the powers of science and blissfully unaware of his tragic incompetence. The second member of the group, portrayed by Peter Hugens, is a butcher of a surgeon who believes that all illnesses may be cured by an operation which he has originated. Hugens shows considerable technical ability in the part. The third...
...president, succeeding Fred J. Emmerich, who was made board chairman. Miller went to State University of Iowa as a chemistry student just before World War I, quit classes temporarily to work for Hercules Powder Co. in New Jersey, helping to develop a smokeless powder. Long hours of working with acid-burned hands convinced him that the front office was more to his liking. Back at college, he boned up on economics as well as chemistry, graduated in 1919 and took an administrative job with National Aniline at Buffalo. When National was merged into Allied the next year, he stayed...