Word: nitric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink lime squash, chew pan (made from the betel nut), and talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...
Ammonium nitrate, whose blast wrecked Texas City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is all too easy to make. The recipe: add ammonia to dilute nitric acid...
...weight, full grown, was 96 lbs. A confirmed invalid, he suffered from coughs, sweats, neuralgia, nausea, diarrhea. He dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...
Last week the Gopher Ordnance Works was in rush-rush production, making nitric acid for much-needed gunpowder...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...