Word: acidizing
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...could stand no more. Red flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid that could fill the hull with poisonous chlorine...
...Carl Sagan likes to point out, our planetary neighbor Venus seems less the goddess of love than the incarnation of hell. Wrapped in a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere with clouds of sulfuric acid, it is a Dantesque world where surface temperatures reach a lead-melting 900° F and atmospheric pressures are 90 times greater than those on earth. In so grim an environment no life could exist...
Perhaps the most popular new folk remedy of modern times is ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C. Ever since Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling popularized this remedy in the 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, many people have become convinced that big doses of ascorbic acid help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal...
...have been sadistic, self-aggrandizing caricatures of himself. But it's been a natural, hard-fought road. This relic of the B-movie studio star has grown to a force of major proportion in the industry, becoming perhaps the only hero for disaffected youth. The years of quickies, westerns, acid, and road movies paid off, creating a unique, vibrant, tenacious, intelligent, self-promoting, humanistic, aloof symbol of the modern age. In his best roles, Nicholson represents order amid chaos. Not in a stilted, dreary, macho way, but in an active, tongue-in-cheek yet soul-wrenching, personally moral...
...Minh, the group is composed of 34 white women and six white men who see themselves as foot soldiers in the battle for black liberation. Its members operate above ground, and in September some protested a U.S. tour by a South Africa rugby team by hurling acid at New York City policemen...