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...four-year-old daughter is locked away in an asylum where they pump chemicals into her brain, the horror and self-loathing Maria experiences in the course of a routinely blase abortion-alone? To escape, or perhaps just to survive, Maria "fixed her imagination on a needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernadino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world." Again, the desert. It all leads back...
...element fluorine (chemical symbol: F) is added to water in the form of several compounds, notably fluosilicic acid, sodium fluosilicate and sodium fluoride. For convenience, all are described simply as fluorides...
Today Annie has graduated to a ramshackle semicommune in the Hollywood Hills, surrounded by the vats, bottles and colors of her Water Baby Dye Works. Most of the works is out of doors -which is almost necessary, because Annie uses lye and sodium hydrosulfite, resulting in fumes that make it necessary for her to cover her hair, wear rubber gloves and an apron, and douse herself thoroughly in vinegar at the end of a dyeing...
...What is it? "A pasteurized blend of water, hydrogenated vegetable oil, sugar, starch, sodium-phosphate, derivatives of mono-and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, polyoxyethylene (20), sorbitan tristearate. salt, cellulose gum, calcium chloride, vanilla and artificial flavor. Charged with nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide." It goes well with pumpkin pie. Answer: a dessert topping. Makes you wonder, doesn...
Taste for Salt. By far the most ancient and frequently used of all food additives, of course, is sodium chloride (NaCl), or "common salt," which is essential to animal life. Grazing animals and fish extract it from the plants they eat. So peoples who live largely by hunting and fishing get all their bodies' salt requirements with no special effort...