Word: nitric
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Superfort crews were more at home in a 50-plane attack on the Chosen Nitrogen Co. plant at Hungnam, on the east coast of North Korea. Operated in World War II by the Japanese, the Hungnam plant was a major producer of glycerine, nitric and sulphuric acid. Huge quantities of explosives were presumed to be stored in the factory area...
...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...