Word: clostridium
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Cause of the disaster, as in similar instances rarely but regularly reported in the U.S., was botulin-a deadly nerve poison secreted by a microbe (Clostridium botulinum), probably from soil. The germs produce botulin only under airless conditions, are hard to kill even by boiling. And since the beets were served cold, Mrs. Gruwell had not boiled them-which might have destroyed the poison...
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Another triumph: production and isolation in pure crystalline form of the most deadly biological poison known to man, the toxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, type A, bacteria which sometimes grow in home-canned vegetables...
Some microbes have done double jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...
Upshot: no patent on Clostridium saccharo-butyl-acetonicum-liquefaciens...