Word: acidity
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...week's end the improvement was dramatic. No one was sure yet what had been wrong with him, but a measure of credit for the Pope's recovery was being given to Dr. Gasbarrini, 72, gastrointestinal specialist, who washed out the Pope's highly acid stomach with an alkaline solution, and discontinued the offbeat treatments of Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans (who injects animal cells into humans to replace worn-out tissues...
...forms vast amounts of nitric acid out of atmospheric oxygen, nitrogen and moisture. There may be enough of it to acidify the rain over large areas, with adverse effects on vegetation...
...survey in the neighborhood, saw the helicopter and the excited crowds milling around. Steered to Mayor Howard's office, he examined the black stone and pronounced it "a smooth, angular rhombus* with some of its corners broken off." The material inside was iron grey. Scrapings tested with hydrochloric acid gave the rotten egg odor of hydrogen sulphide. Swindel consulted Kemp's Handbook of Rocks and cautiously decided that the stone fitted the description of meteorites "of the sulphide type." Then the helicopter crew took charge of the object and flew it off to Montgomery. It was gone when...
...police reconstructed the case, the watches were bought for $3.50, the original brand name was erased with acid, and "Bulov 17" stamped on in ink. The watch looked like the real Bulova 23 model, which retails for $95. The fakes were sold to street hawkers, who sold them at bus depots and railroad stations for up to $23 each. Chief victims: service men in transit. At week's end Furie was charged with counterfeiting a trademark (maximum sentence: one year), let out on $500 bail...
First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...