Word: cresyl
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...ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...
...system called "liquid heat" which combines in one unit all the heat and power needed for house heating, cooking, refrigeration and lighting. The system, regarded by engineers as one of the most exciting heating discoveries in years, uses, instead of water or steam, a chemical solution called tetra-cresyl silicate, which can be heated to 817° Fahrenheit. The Foundation hopefully believes that its concentrated, economical liquid heat may save 48% of the present cost of house utilities...
...been known to die from the poisoning, but no one has been known to recover from the paralysis, said Dr. Maurice Isador Smith last week. Dr. Smith, 45, is the National Institute of Health investigator who two years ago traced the widespread "ginger jake" paralysis to tri-ortho-cresyl-phosphate adulteration. (Manufacturers and vendors have been jailed.) His information about Europe's poisoned apiol was the first revelation to U. S. womanhood of danger in that direction...
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