Word: acidizing
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...them and began to beat them. I was hit in the head. People went back to the church. There are about 2000-3000 in the church. The posse is coming down to the church. People on horseback are beating people with whips and ropes. They are shooting tear gas, acid. I've never seen anything like it in my life. One very old lady I know has a broken...
Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
...Yugoslav's article, called "Moscow Summer," contained other acid observations of the Russian scene. The waiters in restaurants were surly, Mihajlov complained, adding that crime is so prevalent that it is dangerous to walk alone on out-of-the-way streets. At a hotel he was "rudely" told that there were no rooms-until he showed his passport. Then he received an instant apology: "We did not know you were a foreigner. We thought you were a Russian...
...assorted dropsy remedies at their command, doctors are delighted that they soon may have still another. Ethacrynic acid, a synthetic compound discovered in 1960, has a dramatic diuretic effect even in patients who do not respond to other drugs, says a research team at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. It can be taken by mouth or, if necessary, injected. Its effects complement or enhance those of other diuretics, so that in critical cases doctors can give two medicines together for double the effect or more. Ethacrynic acid also seems to work in patients suffering from some degree of kidney...
B.A.S.F. started a century ago as a manufacturer of dyestuffs, went on to develop revolutionary new processes for making sulphuric acid and liquefying chlorine; 85% of the world's nitrogen is made by a process that came out of B.A.S.F. laboratories. In the 1930s, after it had been absorbed by I. G. Farben, the company produced many new plastics and the first magnetic recording tape. To this day, magnetic tape is its only consumer product; everything else is sold as a raw material or for industrial...