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Sensing Biff's confusion, the Chief was already speaking, "professor ... chairman of department ... sprawled face-down ... University Squash Courts ... gassed ... squash ball soaked in chemical ... gave off 'noxious vapors when warmed,' the doc says...
...gases used in Viet Nam seem more humane than horrible. But the words "gas warfare" and "experimenting" stirred macabre memories. There was the afternoon of April 22, 1915, when German infantrymen gave the world its first whiff of poison-gas warfare by sending a huge, grey-green cloud of noxious chlorine rolling over two French divisions in the trenches at Ypres, killing 5,000, incapacitating 10,000, and cutting a 31-mile swath in Allied lines. There were the later bar rages of phosgene, chloropicrin, and particularly, of mustard...
Constant checks will be made to determine if the buses are emitting any harmful fumes in the tunnel. The buses are equipped with catalytic muillers designed to eliminate noxious gasses from the buzes exhausts. The muillers have been approved by the State Department of Health...
...smooth curve showing how strongly the Venusian clouds reflect different wave lengths of solar infrared. This curve matched almost perfectly the reflection spectrum of an ice-crystal cloud observed in the laboratory. It was wholly different from the curves of dust, liquid carbon dioxide, liquid formaldehyde and the other noxious substances that are generally considered to be the content of Venusian clouds...
...potential problem of running the buses underground has already been solved. Last January the State Department of Public Health approved the installation of catalytic mufflers on the diesel-powered buses. The special mufflers would prevent exhaust of noxious gases while the buses are underground...