Word: ammonias
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Ammonium nitrate, whose blast wrecked Texas City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is all too easy to make. The recipe: add ammonia to dilute nitric acid...
...trembling, white-haired old man stood before the bar of justice. Georges Claude, 74, world-famed inventor, has sometimes been called the ''Edison of France." He invented neon lights, was a pioneer in the liquefaction of rare gases, the extraction of atmospheric nitrogen, the synthesis of ammonia. The charge against him : collaboration with the Germans...
...Hemisphere, were Van Biesbroeck's finding of a star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...
Uncertain Reunion. The slow task of identifying the dead went on until after midnight, began again, next morning, continued through the day. Time after time, mothers, fathers and husbands, with ammonia-soaked gauze held to their faces, saw the figures they sought, but could not recognize them. Doctors, dentists and even jewelers, were called to check fillings, scars, rings and watches. Volunteer workers on the armory's drill floor asked patiently, "Was there a wide space between his front teeth? Did he have any identifying scars? Did she have gold fillings...
...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...