Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious. Sixteen minutes later he was pronounced dead...
Developed by General Electric and the Army's Limited War Laboratory, the E63 is based on a phenomenon often demonstrated in high school chemistry classes: if open bottles of ammonia and hydrochloric acid are placed close together, a white cloud of ammonium chloride particles forms above them. These particles serve as nuclei for the condensation of the air's water vapor into tiny, foglike droplets...
...anybody with a carefully supervised program of weight lifting and isometric exercise. Florida's Graves feeds his football players a drink called "Gatorade," which tastes like weak lemonade but is really a combination of glucose, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, calcium cyclamate and citric acid. It was designed by scientists to replenish the chemicals that are burned up by the human body during strenuous exercise...
Simplicissimus, often shortened familiarly to Simpl, is the honored name of Germany's world-famous satirical magazine. Before World War I, it dabbed acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange...
...mined phosphates in Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world, this was the sort of outlet Madrid wanted...