Word: receptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...
...Radio Receptor employees staggered to the street, coughing and choking, their eyes burning. Some collapsed, some vomited. Emergency squads gave oxygen, took dozens of workers to four hospitals; 18 were kept overnight, and some longer. Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Walter C. Wood cleared a two-block area around the plant, kept residents out until 3 a.m., when he thought it was safe...
This experiment has led Dr. Bogoch to believe that the isolated brain constituent is chemically either similar or identical to the natural receptor substances in the brain. It therefore attracts the viruses to itself and prevents their damaging the brain...
...breakdown of touch is less a matter of semantics than of anatomy: each of these senses, says Foerster, "has its own receptor cells to receive impressions of the outside world, and its own nerve pathways...
...appeared to be close to four microns or multiples thereof. It is noteworthy that four microns is one-half the wave length of eight microns, which is well within the emission band of the female." Duane & Tyler suggest: "The male . . . moth has a tuned antenna array which is his receptor for locating the female...