Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power company that switched to heavy industry in order to survive when Italy nationalized power in 1962. The resulting giant, which Italians are already calling "the supercolossus," would have united sales of about $1.5 billion, would control 70% of Italy's chemical production and much of its pyrite, potassium, bauxite and glass output. At the news that the government had tentatively approved the merger and that it would shortly be submitted for stockholder approval, Edison's stock jumped 66 points and Montecatini's eight points on the Milan exchange...
...green emblem on the baby's diaper assays potassium chlorate . . . which implicates the gunpowder blender. Egad, the whole thing begins to jell. The Undershaft payroll goes out tomorrow . . . Then they'll knock the place over within 24 hours?" said Dr. Watson...
...drastic reduction in recent years in the death rate from cholera has resulted mainly from the method that Dr. Phillips' team has devised to maintain the victims' balance of fluids and those all-important electrolytes, the salts of sodium and potassium. But even that Battle is not yet won. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Craig K. Wallace told the International Congress of Pediatrics in Tokyo hat the death rate is almost seven times as high among children under nine as among adults, because their fluid loss is proportionately greater...
...found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...
...taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations of Ikeya-Seki were probably the first ever made of a comet. He is certain that the infrared emissions came from the comet itself and were not reflected sunlight. Analysis of this data should give scientists...