Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strontium Sr 87.63 Calcium Ca 40.07 Vanadium Va 51.0 Magnesium Mg 24.32 Rubidium Rb 85.45 Potassium K 39.10 Zinc Zn 65.37 Sodium...
...Ringer's solution (after Sidney Ringer, English physiologist, 1835-1910) resembles blood serum in composition. One formula contains sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, water...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...Swope died in 1909 of potassium cyanide poisoning. A Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, who had married Col. Swope's niece, was convicted of the crime. Dr. Hyde was further accused of trying to do away with other members of his wife's family by infecting them with typhoid germs. Dr. Hyde's case was appealed and the Missouri Supreme Court cleared him. The prosecution was assisted by U. S. Senator James A. Reed. The defense was led by Frank P. Walsh, whose son and namesake last winter took the Hickman murder trial (and lost...
...Bernard R. Armour of the Heyden Chemical Corp. said that over a year ago he bought some phosgene from Herr Stolzenberg. "We have only about 500 pounds of the gas on hand at a time," said Mr. Armour, explaining that from phosgene are manufactured certain pharmaceutical products, such as potassium guaiacol carbonate. "We keep our gas in 50-pound containers in Fords, some distance from Perth Amboy, N. J. The building is in the centre of an open field and carefully guarded. There is very little danger...