Word: toxication
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...bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...
Said Secretary Flemming at a press conference specially called just 17 days before Thanksgiving: two batches of the cranberry crop from Washington and Oregon had been found contaminated from improper use of a toxic weed killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused thyroid cancer. And so consumers should avoid buying Washington and Oregon cranberries until a way is found to separate the good berries from the bad. In fact, said Flemming, housewives should be "on the safe side" and not buy any, unless they could be sure that the berries were...
...substance that will glue broken bones together, permit rapid recovery. Last year the surgical world perked up its ears when an American orthopedic surgeon told of a plastic glue that foams and hardens after being poured into the hollow channels of broken or diseased bones, seems to have no toxic effects. Last week the medical world was evaluating a progress report by Dr. Michael P. Mandarino of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital that the plastic glue was 94% successful in the treatment of 250 cases...
...worked on the bone glue for four years, has found that patients with compound fractures can return to work four to ten months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign-matter reactions in patients thus far, Drs. Mandarino and Salvatore are still studying it for potential long-term ill effects...
...easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour or dough, even baked and carried around in cake and cookie form. To prove that it was not toxic, K. assembled skeptical military officials, baked his "Aunt Jemima," finished with a flourish by eating one of his small cakes...