Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female Romalea has its large abdomen stuck in the soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents. In addition to quinones, phenols, terpenes and other chemicals that are often used in insect warfare, they found an unexpected ingredient: 2,5-dichlorophenol, a derivative of a man-made herbicide...
Hanging Skin. Circulation cut by a quarter, the client totters to a plastic-covered lounge and gets soaked with the mysterious liquid, then is zipped into a plastic suit. There the customers lie in moist and mummy-like discomfort for 90 minutes. Then they are unzipped and measured to discover how many inches they have lost...
...infant will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...
Another drawback of the Vernon reactor is its operational requirement to release low-level radioactive liquid and gaseous wastes from time to time. The AEC contends that these wastes are harmless. But a recent paper has shown remarkable correlation between changes in infant mortality and radioactive gaseous discharges in Illinois in the area surrounding the Dresden No. 1 power station (a BWR of one-third the capacity of Vernon) over the past ten years. Dresden's annual effluents ranged from 34,860 to 800,000 curies from...
...Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibits the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials, or devices" as well as "the use of bacteriological methods of warfare." In 1969 the General Assembly of the U. N. adopted a resolution recognizing that the Geneva Protocol prohibits "any chemical agents of warfare-chemical substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid-which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man, animals or plants . . . , " thus including herbicides...