Word: acidity
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...Superfort crews were more at home in a 50-plane attack on the Chosen Nitrogen Co. plant at Hungnam, on the east coast of North Korea. Operated in World War II by the Japanese, the Hungnam plant was a major producer of glycerine, nitric and sulphuric acid. Huge quantities of explosives were presumed to be stored in the factory area...
Fiery Tipple. The history of the family of Lord Littlehampton's friend, Poet Jeremy Tipple, is also a compact history of British literary taste. It ends on a magnificently acid note with an account of the devoted leftist, Bill Tipple, a conscientious objector in the late war until the German invasion of Russia jolted him into joining the Drayneflete section of the National Fire Service. Bill Tipple is currently organizing secretary of the World Congress of International Poets in Defense of Peace...
...first it looked as if the woman's body fished out of the muddy waters of the River Plate would have to be tagged as another unsolved crime. With hair shorn, dental plates removed, fingertips destroyed by acid, all clothes removed, the corpse offered no clue to identity...
Michael Sveda was working for his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Illinois and his laboratory bench was cluttered with sulfamic acid and its salts. One day Sveda lit a cigarette without bothering to wash his bench-stained hands, was surprised to find that the cigarette tasted sweet. To track down the cause, Sveda tasted every compound on his bench. The sweetener proved to be sodium cyclohexylsulfamate. It was a lucky accident for people who want sweetness without sugar...
...wide mouth. But history has always had a deft way of palming the millennium till later in the show; and in Frank Norris' tricky piece of pseudohistorical vaudeville, Nutro 29, now you see it now you don't, almost before the author can say nutrono-methylsilicaphe-noxycreosalic acid...