Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain foods, especially fruits, "because they're too acid." Or they do eat mildly acid citrus fruits because they have convinced themselves that orange juice, for example, produces an alkaline reaction in the stomach. Some drinkers avoid highballs with a soda mix, claiming that the carbon dioxide that turns the stuff fizzy also turns their stomachs acid. Contrariwise, others take a glass of plain soda to settle their acid stomachs. Many sufferers gulp black coffee, which actually stimulates an empty stomach to produce more acid, and may be irritating; coffee with cream is "buffered...
...trade name contracted from "corrosion-tensile." It differs from plain carbon steel in its high copper content...
...Carbon Copy. Teeing off at the start, he pulled his drive into rough, hit his second shot into a trap, somehow blasted out to within 10 ft. of the pin for a par four. The second hole was practically a carbon copy of the first:his drive landed behind a tree, his second shot found a trap-and he still got a par. On and on he went, playing as if he had taken lessons from Rube Goldberg-straying down an adjoining fairway on the eighth, bouncing his ball off a tree on the 15th, dumping his drive into loose...
Only for sharply defined crises, brought on by known poisons such as carbon tetrachloride and some drugs (especially barbiturates and those containing mercury or arsenic) did the Cornell panelists recommend use of the artificial kidney. Only after all else has failed, they said, should a kidney transplant even be considered...
...light, which was written into Einstein's age-shaking equation, E = mc2. Constant too is the decay of radioactive materials at rates that cannot be altered by heat, cold, pressure, magnetism, or any other influence.*Such reliability means that ancient tombs can be dated by the decay of carbon 14; the age of the earth's most ancient rocks may be measured by decaying uranium...