Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Chemists. Weiss and Shipman dried the clam flesh, reduced it to ash and dissolved the ash in dilute acid. The solution showed characteristic gamma rays that could come only from cobalt 60. This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero. To make doubly sure. Weiss and Shipman ran a careful analysis. One clam proved to contain one-tenth of a microcurie of cobalt 60; the other had one-third of a microcurie...
Scientists yesterday reported that veinal infusion of calcium is a promising antidote for dangerous radioactive strontium from A-bomb or H-bomb fallout. They also said that the silent clam, due to its peculiar attribute of absorbing radioactive atoms, will reveal fine fallout, which would otherwise be hard to detect...
Welsh has found that both LSD and serotinin, which is also found in the human brain, stimulate the clam heart to beat with larger and faster beats...
Welsh has also found evidence that serotinin is secreted by nerves running to the clam heart. If this proves true, it means that serotinin is the normal exciting agent for the clam heart, and that LSD is able to make the clam heart beat faster than it would under normal stimulation...
...attempt to answer this question. Welsh is studying the action of a bromine derative of LSD on the clam heart...