Word: toxication
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Boron fuels, with their higher energy and higher temperature of combustion, will come close to doubling the range of airplanes. In long-range missiles, they may make the difference between success and failure. They will be expensive (at least $1 per lb.) and probably highly toxic. They will burn with a bright green flame, and their exhaust, a white cloud of solid boron compounds, will be so poisonous to vegetation that tests will have to be run in deserts...
...center, which will be conducted at the University's School of Public Health, will study the responses of the human body to extreme speeds, altitudes, temperatures and toxic agents, and will carry on research in the prevention and control of the increasing dangers...
...Inasmuch as we have been unable to discover any psychologically understandable process to account for the schizophrenic complex, I draw the conclusion that there might be a toxic cause. That is, a physiological change has taken place because the brain cells were subjected to emotional stress beyond their capacity ... I suggest that here is an almost unexplored region, ready for pioneering research work...
Soviet emissaries lead him into a web of indiscretion with their caviar, theater tickets, and Paris dresses for his wife. And there is also the Burgess counterpart of this story-Kevin Chalmers-whose chichi accent is cruelly transcribed: "I'd just had about four gallons of a positively toxic firedamp called a Gibson ..." Chalmers is not only a drunk who has been kicked out of the British embassy in Washington (as was Burgess), but a pervert and a brawler. Chance, security officers, and their own folly put him and Gleave in the same boat, headed for anonymity and dishonor...
...presence of the toxic Mahoney strain as the representative of Type I virus." 4. "Continuing difficulties of production...