Word: acidizing
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...that he lost his voice. ''I've never taught so much football in my life," he sighed wearily to his wife. "Mistakes decide ball games." he told the Packers, and any player who missed a block or dropped a pass instantly felt the sting of his acid tongue. In pre-game pep talks. Lombardi's speeches were like something out of the Spirit of Notre Dame. Once he got down on his knees in the locker room and led the team in the Lord's Prayer. ''You wouldn't think...
Wait for Evidence. Medical scientists' best guess as to how thalidomide damages the fetus is that rapidly dividing cells mistake it for either glutamic acid or a B vitamin, absorb it, and fail to develop normally. In theory, thalidomide might block the metabolic processes of rapidly dividing cancer cells by the same mechanism. But thalidomide failed dismally in its first routine trials against animal cancers in the U.S., and has shown no promise in more detailed tests now in progress...
...shown that the unit responsible for the transport of citric acid--essential for the combustion of fuels in all cells--across a cell membrane, can be altered by repression as well as by mutation. This discovery offers a powerful tool for approaching one of the least-understood aspects of cellular physiology--the remarkable capacity of cell membranes to select only certain substances for passage in and out of the cell...
...Doctors generally agree. Though bicarb is an antacid, daily doses upset the stomach's delicate acid-base balance, irritating the ulcer even more...
...Oslo's University Hospital, he was the first doctor to pay attention to a woman who reported that the urine of her two retarded children had a strangely pungent odor. Dr Følling took the trouble to find out why: the children's urine contained phenylpyruvic acid. As a result of his work, it is now known that because of a genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein foods. Within a few weeks after birth, phenylpyruvic acid inflicts permanent damage on the brain...