Word: citric
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...experiment was performed in 1939 are still alive and healthy. The autojector can also keep a dog's heart beating outside its body, has kept a decapitated dog's head alive for hours-the head cocked its ears at a noise and licked its chops when citric acid was smeared on them. But the machine is incapable of reviving a whole dog more than about 15 minutes after its blood is drained-body cells then begin to disintegrate...
...citrus-fruit substitute, sold for several shillings, consists of diluted citric acid worth a few pence...
...Turner knew, gastroenterologists do not agree on whether or not ulcer diets should contain orange juice. The juice contains citric acid only in harmless traces, but it might stimulate the stomach to produce a more than normal amount of hydrochloric acid. Because they feared hydrochloric acid, some doctors banned orange juice; others prescribed it to keep up the vitamin C intake. Ulcer patients without enough vitamin...
...Mercedes, Tex., confronted with the fact that Mrs. Lucinda Loya de Candu had died a few minutes after taking his supposedly harmless prescription, Dr. Humberto Ruggi Garrido took an identical dose in the presence of challenging relatives. He died in a few minutes. Doctors recognized that citric acid and potassium bicarbonate in the medicine, harmless if taken at an interval, together formed potassium citrate and soda water. The soda water bloated the two people to death...
...mortar with syrup. To every 100 Ib. of quicklime in a lime-sand mortar mix they add 6 Ib. sugar. The sugared mortar is 60% stronger than ordinary mortar. Sugar last week sold at 4½? per Ib. wholesale. The two sugar investigators also perfected commercial methods of making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have also made sucrose octa-acetate and sucrose benzoate, which are valuable in certain kinds of lacquers and adhesives and in the manufacture of paper. Sluggish Gasoline. There is a gasoline "which under ordinary conditions will burn only with a wick as kerosene...