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...concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium." This is the kind of song that makes you wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This off the wall song, which basically tells of the romantic side to the chemical bond that makes salt, in a gentle-twangy country melody, is probably...
Ninety-two percent egg white, 7% whey with calcium and sodium caseinates, leeithin and vegetable mono-and di-glycerides, cellulose, xanthan gums, artificial colors, aluminum sulfate, ferric orthophosphate, zinc sulfate, calcium pantothenate; last night's reheated coffee; slightly scorched day-old bread, I slice sandwich...
Spoonful powdered orange drink added to glass of tap water, bowl of puff-milled corn, sugar, corn syrup, molases, salt, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, sodium ascorbate, BHA added to preserve product freshness...
Also last week, a 101-car Illinois Central Gulf train jumped the tracks in Cades, Tenn. Among the derailed cars was one filled with caustic sodium hydroxide. Two days later 33 cars of a 91-car train, including one flatcar with a truck trailer containing 200 cases of flammable insecticide, derailed near Bowling Green, Ky. In neither accident were there any deaths or injuries...
...African green monkey kidney cells. Samples of each batch of vaccine (currently totaling about 25 million doses a year) are then injected into the brain cavities or spinal columns of 45 rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues can be examined microscopically for changes that would result from any imperfection in the vaccine. If any are found, that batch of vaccine is thrown out. If none are found, samples of the batch are sent to the Bureau of Biologies, where the process...