Word: toxicants
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...explosive device from outside." The document calls for the deployment of three limos, each carrying 12 or more compressed-gas cylinders to create a "full fuel-air explosion by venting flammable gas into a confined space and then igniting it." It suggests painting the cylinders yellow to falsely "signify toxic gases to spread terror and chaos when emergency and haz-mat teams arrive...
Forty-eight years after mankind's first forays into space, the toxic orange haze covering Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has finally been penetrated. Ending a seven-year, 3.5 billion-kilometer voyage, the Huygens probe touched down on Titan last week, giving earthbound gawkers their first glimpse of its icy surface. Early transmissions from the 350-kg probe revealed a smog-shrouded landscape of boulder-strewn plains, winding drainage channels, and dark pools that may contain liquid hydrocarbon. While it remains unclear whether the Huygens data on Titan, which has been likened to a frozen version of early Earth...
...poisoned Viktor Yushchenko? On Dec. 17, doctors identified a massive dose of TCDD, the most toxic form of dioxin, as the cause of the Ukrainian opposition leader's grievous illness and facial disfigurement. Yushchenko claimed that the poisoning took place on Sept. 5 at a dinner with General Ihor Smeshko, head of the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, and Smeshko's First Deputy, Volodymyr Satsyuk. "That was the only place where no one from my team was present and no precautions were taken concerning the food," Yushchenko said on Dec. 16. The next day, campaigning...
...prestigious hospital in Austria presented evidence last Saturday that the Ukrainian opposition leader--just like that country's recent election--had been poisoned. Tests done during his third trip to Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic showed that the presidential candidate's blood contained such high levels of dioxin--a toxic by-product of the manufacture of certain disinfectants and herbicides, and an ingredient in Agent Orange--that it was difficult to get an accurate measurement. "The needle was literally off the charts," Rudolfinerhaus director Dr. Michael Zimpfer told TIME, though doctors say his bodily functions are returning to normal...
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