Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large percentage of deaths, burning clothes supplied the deadly fumes. This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...rare Eastern disease; in London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died. Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark, her husband Daniel, their sons Rowland, 10, and Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case...
Again last week the innards of Carbon Mountain, a hill in the southwest corner of Colorado three miles south of Durango, churned and rumbled. Fissures opened in its slopes, oozed warm earth. Surface rock, amateurishly estimated as 25 million tons, avalanched down into Animas Valley to the north and might have rumbled on into Durango> did not Smelter Mountain intervene as a retaining wall. But Durango's citizens were calm. The breakup of Carbon Mountain has been going on since mid-December...
...that time the face of Carbon Mountain was a sheer cliff. Rock near the crest of the cliff, with slight forewarnings, cracked off, crumpled and crashed 150 ft. to the valley floor. Carbon's vertical face thus became a slope...
Geologists have paid curiously little attention to the event at Durango. Local men hazard diverse opinions. One supposes that coal beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon...