Word: carbonations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage that follows is short-lived. Its fires banked, the star is deprived of the outward radiation pressure. It contracts violently, driving the core temperature up again, until it reaches 200 million degrees. That is hot enough to ignite the helium, which fuses into a still heavier element: carbon. Its radiation energy restored, the star zooms back toward red-giant status 100 times faster than it took to get there the first time...
...momentous discovery within his grasp. For obviously what the student had unwittingly stumbled upon was a fair copy of a previously unknown fragment of Paradise Lost. I of course did not jump to this conclusion, but subjected the fragment to all possible tests, including metrical analysis and carbon 14 dating, before deciding that these lines are indeed by Milton. Possibly they represent an abortive attempt at a Book XIII, or even the beginning of a sequel to Paradise Lost. However, the regularity of the iambic pentameter suggests that these lines were written early in Milton's career, and hence represent...
...dizzy and nauseated. Sighting a sign reading MOTORIST AID CALL BOX, O'Rourke braked to a stop and followed the simple instructions on the box. Then she lost consciousness. Minutes later, a rescue unit arrived and rushed the family to a nearby hospital, where doctors treated them for carbon-monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty muffler...
Thousands of Americans are already suffering the grim consequences of excessive exposure to such chemicals as asbestos, vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can-and too often do-cause metabolic disorders, birth defects or even cancer. But now there is hope that many others may be spared such agonies in the future. Calling it "one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation to come out of Congress," President Ford last week signed into law a bill that requires premarket testing of new chemicals...
Toxicologists have already worked on phosgene, herbicides and pesticides, and carbon tetrachloride, at least 16 metals and many of their compounds -even the paint on pencils that might have been used as swizzle sticks. For a few days nickel carbonyl (a versatile industrial chemical) was a prime suspect, but the first laboratory tests proved useless because of contamination. Some unofficial observers speculated that diazomethane, a gas used in making plastics, might have been spread around in some mysterious...