Word: acidity
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...months passed, the chemical ate its way through the tank cars. Arsenic trichloride, when mixed with enough water, breaks down into arsenic trioxide and hydrochloric acid in a chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...Samaritan." The archbishop's rebuke to Roman Catholics, noted Father Holland in the Catholic Herald, had come just after some highly sympathetic remarks by the archbishop about the plight of the church in Poland. "Against the background of the Polish persecution. The Strange Samaritan has gently poured in acid...
...biological processes by which food is converted into energy. Krebs had already shown that urea, the end product of nitrogen metabolism, is formed through a cycle of chemical reactions in the liver. Soon he was delving into a still more important cycle, by which products of sugar and fatty acids are broken down into a group of chemicals including pyruvic acid. This acid is oxidized or "burned" to form a go-between chemical now known as acetyl coenzyme A. Other acids, notably citric, are formed in a series of changes until the cycle begins to repeat itself with the introduction...
...about with quips like, "Of course people mean what they say, but do they always say what they mean?" Not all his lines are from Alice in Wonderland, but most are just as familiar. The dialogues between Hampden and Skillingworth, headmaster of the boys' school, intended to be bitingly acid, are only loud...
...grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate, blending with the stronger tones of Stern...