Word: nitric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explain briefly why AgCl dissolves in NH3(NH4OH) solution but does not dissolve in dilute nitric acid...
...they swarmed into the trams, burned the seat cushions of the first-class section, and hurled second-class passengers into the streets. But the drivers kept on going. So the Communists pelted them and their passengers with bricks, bottles and Indian Communism's favorite weapon-bulbs filled with nitric acid...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...gets a deep flesh cut from a jagged instrument, the doctor usually washes out the wound with soap & water, cuts away dead tissue, and stitches up the wound. He may put a mild antiseptic on the surrounding skin. He would never think of cauterizing such a wound with fuming nitric acid and then leaving it open. But if the patient in such a case is the victim of a dogbite, he is all too likely to be subjected to painful cautery, and perhaps scarred for life...
...only thing that makes a dogbite (or the bites of other animals*) different from an ordinary wound, says Dr. Vinnard, is the possible presence of rabies virus. It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap & water than by nitric acid or any other of the cauterizing agents. As for leaving the wound open, this increases the chance of disfigurement...