Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lemonade. This drink cools you off not simply because it's cold liquid served with ice, but because of some mysterious chemistry between lemon, sugar and the human tongue. A lemon is, well, a cool fruit...
Variations: You can buy colorful plastic cubes with liquid inside at some gourmet stores. The idea is that they don't water down your drink or ruin the taste...
Then the third sip makes your entire body realize that the liquid you have just been drinking tastes exactly like three-week-old Cambridge sewer water (yes, it's really that...
...this the time to get out of stocks? In spite of the danger signs, few Wall Street gurus foresee a sharp downturn anytime soon, as long as interest rates stay low. That's because investors still have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates...
BATTERIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ACHILLES' HEEL of electric cars; you can make one that's rugged, but it's bound to be too heavy, too bulky and unable to store enough electricity. Or you can make a lightweight, efficient battery using a liquid containing lithium salts as the energy-storage medium, and risk leakage or fire in the case of an accident. Now three Arizona State University chemists have an answer that is literally a clever solution. By dissolving lithium not into liquid but into polymer (plastic), they have paved the way for a high-power battery that...