Word: toxication
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...that a heavy cigarette smoker carries a 3% to 4% concentration of carbon monoxide in his bloodstream. Thus it is not surprising, he says, that habitual smokers are the first to turn up at hospitals during periods of extreme air pollution; carbon monoxide concentrations in their bloodstream reach a toxic 25%-30% level before those of nonsmokers...
...Macabre, The Tingler). From here on, it turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep on Uncle's neck. The spider, as a matter of fact...
...weapon in flushing the enemy from his tunnel cities has been non-toxic CN tear gas-the use of which has brought screams of protest from critics in the U.S. Military men argue that gas is the only way of safely separating noncombatant Vietnamese hiding underground from Viet Cong. Often the gas is pumped into the tunnel complexes by means of long hoses attached to gasoline-driven pumps, but gas grenades are usually used. Last week U.S. troops in Tay Ninh were hit by Communist gas grenades. With that, the argument against U.S. use of nontoxic gas went...
...professional forester, I live and work among millions of trees. These, according to Professor Went [Sept. 9], produce an "incredibly toxic" blue haze. I have lived in Pittsburgh before smoke control. I have known gasoline smog in Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...
...haze" that occurs during summer, even over relatively uninhabited areas of land. They emit molecular substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...