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Word: diphenyl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...longer is the civilian reasonably safe to carry on for posterity. Science, especially chemistry and aviation, has translated the next war into terms of universal destruction. . . . "In man slight and transitory nasal irritation is appreciable after an exposure of five minutes to as little as one part of diphenyl-chloroarsine in two hundred million parts of air. ... A concentration of one part in ten million will probably incapacitate a man within a minute from the pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting accompanying an exposure of from two to three minutes of this concentration. . . . These substances are generally used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Omnicide | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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