Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporters who watched while Luis Jose Monge [June 9] choked to death in the Colorado gas chamber, I take issue with your statement that "five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious...
Sucked In, Sealed Off. Especially important among the cells' inflammatory chemicals are enzymes, the organic catalysts that mediate reactions between other body substances and, in some cases, destroy them. Perhaps the most potent are the acid hydrolases, some of which dissolve proteins and nucleic acids. Where they were kept was a mystery until 1955, when Dr. Christian de Duve at the Catholic University of Louvain deduced from their behavior that they must be stored in some particles inside the cells. Though nobody had yet seen the particles, he named them lysosomes (dissolving bodies...
Usually, that is good; the harmless debris may be either left in the cell or expelled from it. But in the case of some viruses, the effect may be to bare the virus particle's nucleic acid and leave it free to infect the cell. Moreover, as New York University's Dr. Gerald Weissmann reported in Michigan, some virus particles can survive a spell in a digestive sac, and emerge from it with their infective powers intact. By another mechanism, lysosomes can be directly harmful: they may, for reasons not yet guessed at, attack part of their...
...marijuana at Harvard. Farnsworth says usage is at around five per cent, and most proctors and students agree. Perhaps because some of its bad effects are so well publicized, LSD is certainly not found in abundance at Harvard. One freshman may have told why when he said, "I used acid a lot before I came here, and I'm going to use it next year when I leave. But there's no sense using it here. I'd just be flipped out all the time. I wouldn't want to go to classes or do anything. There's no sense...
...decomposed into odorless carbon dioxide and ammonia gas. Thus the air in the vicinity of a large group of men-especially in hot and humid climates-contains high concentrations of ammonia. To detect the ammonia, the E63 scoops up air, passes it over a wick saturated with hydrochloric acid and into a humidifying chamber. If the air contains any ammonia, a fog forms, changing the amount of light shining on a photoelectric cell and varying the amount of electric current that it produces. The current variation in turn increases the frequency of a beeping sound in the operator...