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...cabbage is the source of the first hangover cure that Clayton and Langdon actually recommend: sauerkraut juice. "Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...
...atmosphere of a pre-life planet, Urey believes, is not like the earth's. It is highly "reducing": i.e., it contains large amounts of methane, ammonia, water vapor and similar compounds, but no free oxygen. The atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are believed to be like this. As millions of years pass, the sun's light causes chemical reactions among the atmospheric gases. Larger molecules begin to form (e.g., aldehydes, amines, organic acids), and they rain down into the oceans below. There they react with one another and with dissolved salts. All possible chemical compounds are formed eventually...
...Urey has no tangible proof of this theory. But he is hopeful of two investigations now in progress. One, conducted by one of his students at the University of Chicago, is to expose a synthetic reducing atmosphere of methane, ammonia and water vapor to ultraviolet rays If organic compounds are formed, it will be proof that they could be formed in the atmosphere of a pre-life planet...
...flocks, partly because of its reputation for good food. Union chefs served up eight course dinners for fifty cents. The snack bar, which proudly "bottled its own tonics, sodas and minerals," offered a concoction called a Lampoon Soda (five cents). Imbibers would undoubtedly follow this with spirits of ammonia (ten cents...
...Kansas-born chief engineer, Edward S. Roberts, 48, has been working on the process for 18 years; the company spent some $3,000,000 on research perfecting it. It starts by immersing ground crude ore in chemicals and water to float out some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...