Word: vapor
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...nerve agent like VX, it is a toxic, odorless vapor that could be sprayed from the air or dispersed using artillery shells...
...KILLS Vapor inhalation or skin exposure causes painful, long-lasting blisters all over the body. But fewer than 1 out of 10 of those exposed dies...
...describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5ºF) that glacier-fed streams run no more than six weeks a year, and so arid that what little snow falls turns to vapor almost overnight. Scientists recently reported, however, that sequestered in the 60 ft. of ice that covers one of the largest Dry Valleys lakes, Lake Vida, are dormant but still viable bacteria that have been sealed off from the outside world for some 3,000 years...
...engine, no steering column and no brake pedal. It requires no gasoline, emits no pollution (just a little water vapor) and yet handles like a high-performance Porsche. It might sound like an environmentalist's fantasy, but there it was on display at the Paris Auto Show last September: the Hy-wire, a politically correct, fully functional prototype that General Motors claims could be road ready by 2010. Other car manufacturers--including Toyota, Honda and Ford--are working on post-fossil-fuel automobiles, but only GM has rethought the car from the ground up, adopting an impressive array of advanced...
...what the Vapir heralds as the very “essence of plant.†With the use of infrared rays, convection currents and its own microprocessor, the Vapir is capable of heating herbs to temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, releasing the herb as a barely visible vapor mist rather than as smoke...