Word: poisons
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...skin is full of very small holes. . . . We sweat through these holes. When we sweat we get rid of poison. . . . When our skin is dirty the holes are full and the poison cannot get out. Then we get sick...
Plants occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...
...Briton Haldane impetuously clapped on an oxygen mask and, breathing pure oxygen (to study its effects), "dived" in a pressure chamber to a depth of seven atmospheric pressures (200 feet). The experiment nearly killed the experimenter, but it proved to him that oxygen, under pressure, is a violent poison...
...easily forgotten. By 1945 he had grown to be one of the most infamous spies and bullies of all time. When finally faced with trial and punishment himself, he took poison (TIME, June 4, 1945). His name: Heinrich Himmler...
Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without dress coats...