Word: formic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were stuck with needles, and bewitched fruits were planted in their gardens. One devotee claimed she was used as a naked altar, raped, and smeared with chicken blood, to be used later to curse the foe. In the poison phase, clotheslines were doused with smallpox serum, garden tomatoes with formic acid, and doorknobs with caustic concoctions. One of the five cultists on trial with the swami admitted popping a poisoned chocolate into a victim's mouth (disliking the flavor, the victim spat it out). In stage three, an arsenal was allegedly assembled, and bombs were planted next...
Wollin and Ericson mixed the molecules of gases recently detected in the far reaches of space - ammonia, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid - in various combinations. Then, keeping the gases completely free of water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...
...phone on Sunday. First as to homework, your reporter had access to Walter Sullivan's article in the N.Y. Times of Nov. 6, and he mentioned having seen it. Even a casual reading of this article would have avoided must of the errors. Secondly, a press release on formic acid dated Nov. 6 was on the AP and UP wires. Finally, an I.A.U. Circular was issued last week which contained the technical details of the formic acid discovery. Your reporter failed to read or failed to understand any of these...
...methyl alcohol (not ethyl alcohol) has been found toward the galactic center. The group responsible for this discovery includes Carl A. Gottlieb and A. E. Lilley of Harvard and H. E. Radford of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Dr. Radford supervised the all-important measurements of the laboratory frequencies. The formic acid discovery was made by a group headed by B. Zuckerman of the University of Maryland and including Gottlieb and Radford...
Organic compounds are present in all living substances. Formic acid is contained in the urine, blood, and perspiration of humans...