Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHEMICAL INDUSTRY continues to reap profits from the fumigant carbon tetrachloride--used on corn, wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, sorghum and even popcorn--even though it is toxic to embryos, livers and kidneys, and may cause mutations, birth defects and cancer...
...sponsor tournaments, and TV networks were broadcasting even routine matches. On the amateur level, a game that could claim just 14 million adult regular players in 1972 had by 1976 some 26 million participants eager to invest in such paraphernalia as fluorescent balls, designer outfits, $30 shoes and $62 carbon steel racquets. Now the game has gone soft, at least as a business...
...labeled "mineral," meaning that they once gushed directly from springs or had minerals added later. The other containers hold only ordinary water that has been purified by filtration or by chemicals. Mineral water runs in two varieties, still and effervescent. The bubbles are often achieved by the addition of carbon dioxide...
...added that the problem with carbon dioxide "is that we are not knowledgable enough to predict exactly what the effects on the atmosphere will...
However, commenting on a report recently released by the Council on Environmental Quality, the scientists differed on the effects of the additional carbon dioxide...