Word: magnesium
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...Prefect of Police, has had little soothing effect; and sacrificing M. Chiappe demanded a good deal of courage, for the man possessed power out of all proportion to his official position. So the battle in the streets of Paris rages on but not so merrily as before; the former magnesium-throwing mood has given way to riots which are being conducted in deadly earnest and which are being suppressed in the same spirit. Last night two people were killed when troops fired on the mob in the Place de la Concorde, while frenzied crowds outside the Chamber of Deputies shouted...
...down the boulevards, battling with the constabulary. The streets have been torn up and impromptu fortifications constructed; all cafes have closed their doors and brought their tables inside; rioters have braved the charges of the gendarmes and ruined all efforts of mounted squadrons to disperse them by tossing magnesium flares at their horses...
...fundamental difference is iron in blood, magnesium in chlorophyll. For his chlorophyll investigations Professor Willstätter received the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between 2,600° and 4,600° F.). One or more contained calcium, manganese, aluminum, chromium. Three containing magnesium burned greenishly...
...ones. By the time the moratorium was modified after two days to permit withdrawals up to 5% of deposits, the scarcity of money was acute. Even Governor-reject Brucker was forced to borrow $10. Newsboys had to sell on credit. In Midland, big Dow Chemical Co. coined magnesium into "Dowmetal money" with a specified value of 20?. The City of Detroit went into technical default, its bonds slumped badly. But Michigan stayed cheerful. It was considered funny to sing to your friends "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...