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...cobra, poised to strike. Most youngsters, the association reasons, are warned against snakes early in life. They should be able to recognize the symbol and heed its warning. The recommendation is that stickers be put not only on dangerous medicines, but on containers for such poisons, among others, as ammonia, antifreeze, bleaches and disinfectants containing chlorine, gasoline, insect and rat poisons, kerosene and lead paints...
Almost everyone agrees that Petrobras' operations are hampered by ill-trained and featherbedding workers. Last year Petrobras held up construction on an ammonia plant in Bahia, yet kept on most of the 400 workers hired for the plant, transferring them to other jobs. Companies doing business with Petrobras also complain that its personnel solicit bribes and kickbacks. On several deals, according to insiders, Petrobras has imported crude oil at prices well above the market and exported refined products at a loss. Moreover, Communist-leaning agitators dominate Petrobras' powerful refining and pro duction unions-which, in turn, suggest their...
...lung cancer is still unknown, but there is clinical evidence linking cancer with foreign matter in the respiratory system. Cilia are thin hairs that prevent such particles from lodging in the tract. The charcoal granules in the compartmentalised Lark filter adsorb such gases as hydrogen, cyanide, formaldehyde, acrolein, and ammonia, which interfere with this process...
...times by diversifying into chemical fertilizers. Lately, half a dozen U.S. oil companies-among them, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Cities Service and Kerr-McGee-have come into the business in a big way by buying up smaller fertilizer companies as marketing arms for petrochemical byproducts that they turn into ammonia fertilizers...
Natural gas is also a prime source of anhydrous ammonia, the key ingredient in nitrogen fertilizers. Because of its vast natural gas reserves-and its generous sources of phosphate, potash and other plant foods-the U.S. is the world's prime supplier of fertilizer. About 10% of the U.S. output is exported, mostly to developing nations that need more food for their rapidly expanding populations-Korea, Mexico, India and Chile...