Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...snatches of topics that seemed appropriate for any place but the dinner-table. At one table there was going on an excited discussion over the solution of oblique triangles, at another I heard a man quoting Whately verbatim, and before I reached my seat unpleasant associations connected with sulphuretted hydrogen and cyanide of potassium were suggested by an embryo chemist in my neighborhood...
...occupants of Thayer were startled, last Wednesday night, by an explosion, caused by an indiscreet Freshman, who was experimenting with an oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe...