| 单词 | chemical |
| 例句 | Nonetheless, in contrast to the proteins, the solid chemical facts known about DNA were meager. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z No longer are exposures to dangerous chemicals occupational alone; they have entered the environment of everyone — even of children as yet unborn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A security card would be melted or ruined by chemicals during the decontamination process. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Among other plots, Harvey attempted to damage Castro's public image by adding chemicals to his cigars that would have made him seem confused and incoherent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was grown without the help of fossil fuels, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Gone are the days of heavy chemical fuel burns and trans-Mars injection orbits. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In a southern New England town one contractor finished his work with some chemical remaining in his tank. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then C. J. opened the tank from his side and removed the paper, dripping with chemicals, and held it in his hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They cite the great penetrating power of radiation, but doubt that chemicals could reach the germ cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What I didn’t know is that the chemical doesn’t really start to burn until it’s being rinsed out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z From attic trapdoors, blind robot faces peered down with faucet mouths gushing green chemical. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the controversy that followed seizure of contaminated cranberries by the Food and Drug Administration, the fact that the chemical actually is cancer producing was widely challenged, even by many medical men. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And there are indications that these chemicals lodge in tissues concerned with the manufacture of germ cells as well as in the cells themselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes he applied the chemicals with a hand spray, sometimes with an attachment to his hose. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mustard gas as a mutagen has now been joined by a long list of other chemicals known to alter genetic material in plants and animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To neutralize the poisons, military hospitals sprayed the chemicals in the air and on smelly body waste. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Experiments carried out about a decade ago showed that after treatment with this chemical there is a sharp increase in the nitrate content of corn and of sugar beets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The lights were glowing in the factory, the work was going on; machines were turning, chemicals were combining, people were producing goods and earning their livings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Those mistakes can happen when you get exposed to chemicals or radiation,” Christoph said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I flipped the textbook to a page she’d flagged, the chemical diagram for hydrochloric acid. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z This chemical was misused by a number of cranberry growers in 1959, producing residues on some of the marketed berries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One is that the cost of insect control by chemicals is increasing steadily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Pressure brings it up. It results from a chemical reaction in the lungs when water mixes with air and mucus.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For these chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Anybody or anything messes with me and they will get a face full of chemical nasty that will stick their eyes open for weeks.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z By January 21, fish were being killed 100 miles downstream near La Grange, and a week later the chemicals were doing their lethal work 200 miles below Austin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Natural chemicals in red wine called flavonoids are thought to fight cancer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But evidence of the deadly presence of the chemicals was obtained by placing test goldfish in cages in the river; they were dead within a day. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And the early stages of these fishes, even more than the adults, are especially susceptible to direct chemical poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She smothers me in a cloud of chemicals that makes me cough, and the next time I touch my hair it's so stiff it feels like plastic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “No. I’m just messed up. My brain makes the wrong chemicals.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I delight in the chemicals that would doubtless sicken all the lords and ladies at the Court. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They washed the chemicals into the streams, and as this happened the farmers applied more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he went off, after congratulating me and Francis for our excellent chemical work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A red flag waved for me, something chemical happened inside me, every time I heard that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a few decades ago, no one knew these effects of either radiation or chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He bought candy bars and beef jerky sticks and more chemical hand- and feetwarmers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I mean, it could have been a certain cloud above our house with some weird mix of pollution and chemicals in it from some power plant in Joliet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt comfortable and safe in here, surrounded by the sloshing noises of virus-killing liquids and the hiss of air and the ruffling sensation across his back as the chemicals played over his suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And that chemical bleach smell fills my nostrils. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He transferred prints from a tray of chemicals to the water bath in the last container and gently swished them with a pair of tongs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Using only the most abundant gases that were present on the early Earth and almost any energy source that breaks chemical bonds, we can produce the essential building blocks of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, some medical men believe that intermittent exposures to chemicals may produce just such sensitivity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was no free fuel for its aging factories, no guaranteed market for its often-shoddy goods, and no access to cheap, Soviet-made chemical fertilizers on which state farms had become dependent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Willow insisted that it never be watered down, as they had done in the past to make the chemicals go further. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A bottle of it is stacked next to the other chemical supplies right in front of me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The number of protons is what gives an atom its chemical identity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It could be the chemicals in the cleaner used to wipe the table that I just touched. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All these consequences of radiation have been duplicated in laboratory studies by a large group of chemicals known as radio- mimetic or radiation-imitating. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “When I told them about it they didn’t waste any time. They say it’s a chemical imbalance, and if I get the right drugs for it, I’ll be fine.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Attempts to restore control with dieldrin met with little success, for in some places the flies developed strong resistance to this chemical 'within only two months. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Homeopathy is a type of medicine that rejects the use of harsh chemicals and other techniques. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She moved quickly through the darkness, like an insect following a chemical trail. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a faint, foul chemical smell and a cool, humid emptiness waft out from the main doors of the building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Each of these recurrent exposures, no matter how slight, contributes to the progressive buildup of chemicals in our bodies and so to cumulative poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, items that come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Even if she were feeling OK she probably shouldn’t be around the chemicals we use. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They succeeded so well that their spurious product responded to the appropriate chemical tests and deceived the government chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He hired a chemical company to fumigate the fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It is a bit of a chemical oddity in that at ground level it is a pollutant, while way up in the stratosphere it is beneficial, since it soaks up dangerous ultraviolet radiation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yes, they’re expecting me—I hope not just for the purpose of denouncing me as a chemical misfit. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the chemical war is never won, and all life is caught in its violent crossfire. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The paper is coated with some kind of horrible-tasting chemical, so everyone will go running for the water fountain. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The few raccoons then found in the area carried residues of the chemical in their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This chemical, like parathion and its relatives, destroys the protective enzyme cholinesterase. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The town fathers of a thousand communities lend willing ears to the chemical salesman and the eager contractors who will rid the roadsides of “brush” — for a price. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Biological-control studies, on the other hand, are never so endowed — for the simple reason that they do not promise anyone the fortunes that are to be made in the chemical industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Upstairs, there was a science laboratory fully equipped with glass beakers, test tubes, and a variety of scales, batteries, and chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He then carefully extracted the chemical elements that made the powders sweet. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This means that the breast-fed human infant is receiving small, but regular additions to the load of toxic chemicals building up in his body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Your hair is beautiful the way it is. I don’t see why you need to put any chemicals in it anyway.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And, it turns out, each of the stages is orchestrated by chemicals—neurotransmitters—in the brain. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The second chemical of the attraction phase is serotonin. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, these were my chemicals paid for with my money. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was deeply grateful for the chemical hand- and feetwarmers, which kept his extremities from freezing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The wild turkeys may have suffered the same fate as their domestic brethren, for turkeys on farms in the area treated with chemicals also produced few young. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The sweet, slightly chemical scent of gun oil; the raw wood of newly constructed shell crates; the mothballed odor of old bedspreads—he’s in the hotel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And what are chemicals—a biophysicist might add—if not molecules of matter? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Because of the proximity of rich supplies of fuel, the state became the center of big, fuel-intensive industries like steelmaking and chemicals. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Cells depend on chemical reactions to live: during respiration, for instance, sugar combines chemically with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A protective enzyme called cholinesterase is at hand to destroy the transmitting chemical once it is no longer needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By the second, we were working at balancing chemical equations. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Chefs around the country, like the ones who buy from Polyface in Virginia, are trying to teach consumers that food actually tastes better when it is fresh, in season, and grown without chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Polyphenols are a group of chemicals made by plants that seem to play an important role in human health. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Gold started sneaking documents out of his lab, plans and formulas for making industrial chemicals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Safe Horses had a faint chemical odor, but this one reeked of sun and sweat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, genetic information must have been transmitted between two organisms in a purely chemical form, allowing that transition from the rough-coated to the smooth-coated variant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I wonder how many chemicals Amá is exposed to every day. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Natural, synthetic, liquid, solid, electrical, chemical, wood, metal, plastic, paper—on and on. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can precipitate acute poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Department does not say what will happen when the only chemicals left untried are those that render the earth not only insectless but lifeless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of them, labeled defense dispenser, offered self-defense equipment: lightweight body armor, chemical repellents, and a wide selection of handguns. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, suggestions are heard here and there that these sterilizing chemicals might be applied as aerial sprays — for example, to coat the foliage chewed by gypsy moth larvae. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Had the chemical reached this remote creek by hidden underground streams? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kamen soon was drafted by the physicist Jackson Laslett to help with the chemical separation of sodium isotopes, and the chemist Glenn Seaborg was absorbed into a team working with uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet the nature of many of the chemicals used against insects, rodents, and weeds is such that they may strike directly at this system, disrupting its beautifully functioning mechanism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of his training specialties was chemical agents, he said, explaining with a wink that “chemical agents make you fat.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to know any chemical equation or macromolecular synthesis without hesitation. But with age, I am becoming less useful.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “British brains dream up a chemical bond stronger than gravity!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Large residues of DDT and other hydrocarbons have been found whenever looked for in the eggs of birds subjected to these chemicals, either experimentally or in the wild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even in 1959, with more than 100 major insect species showing definite resistance to chemicals, one of the leading journals in the field of agricultural chemistry spoke of “real or imagined” insect resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For a century or more after Pott’s discovery there seems to have been little further realization that certain of the chemicals in the human environment could cause cancer by repeated skin contact, inhalation, or swallowing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We have a lot of medicines in this house,” Gay said in a raspy voice, “and chemicals and poisons. How long do we have? Do we need to call an ambulance?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Within a span I could identify any chemical in his cart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Against me was the awkward chemical fact that I had chosen the wrong tautomeric forms of guanine and thymine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Deane’s reports in invisible ink were passed to John Jay, who had the developing chemical that made the writing visible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the hotel chemical odors ebbed and flowed like an atmospheric tide. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Professor Rolf Eliassen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified before a congressional committee to the impossibility of predicting the composite effect of these chemicals, or of identifying the organic matter resulting from the mixture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To Schrödinger’s “What is life?” a biochemist might answer, “If not chemicals.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Public education as to the nature of the chemicals offered for sale is sadly needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She met and married an intense dark man—a man whose fingers were stained with chemicals, mostly silver nitrate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had found the same white swirl of a chemical in salmon sperm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Knipling has pointed out that effective chemical insect sterilization “might easily outdo some of the best of known insecticides.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The only exposure of the infant mice to urethane was prenatal in these experiments, proving that the chemical must have passed through the placenta. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The important thing, he would argue, is that behind every organic TV dinner or chicken stands acres of land that will no longer be doused with chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A good many people now have misgivings about the aerial distribution of lethal chemicals over millions of acres, and two mass-spraying campaigns undertaken in the late 1950’s have done much to increase these doubts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The salt I wound up with was greasy and tasted so much like chemicals that it actually made me gag. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something chemical and irreversible. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As the tide of chemicals born of the Industrial Age has arisen to engulf our environment, a drastic change has come about in the nature of the most serious public health problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And then the disaster happened and orchids started growing, sucking up the processed chemicals from moss, and just like that: blue orchid. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The diffusion of a chemical through a matrix of protein can even create distinct, three-dimensional patterns—like a pool of syrup ribboning into oatmeal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is considered the least toxic of this group of chemicals and many people assume they may use it freely and without fear of harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In contrast, the unsatisfactory attempts at chemical control in earlier years had cost about £, 1 o per acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Proteins enable these barely possible reactions, allowing us to live on the edges of chemical entropy—skating perilously, but never falling in. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Proteins enabled chemical reactions, speeding and controlling the pace of biochemical processes, thereby acting as the switchboards of the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The air lock was made entirely of stainless steel, and it was lined with nozzles for spraying water and chemicals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, however, Dr. Pickett and his associates struck out on a new road instead of going along with other entomologists who continued to pursue the will-o’-the-wisp of the ever more toxic chemical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Your neighbor could be a salesperson of illegal chemicals of recreation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Within a week, he confessed to dumping chemicals in a nearby river. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My biology textbook said that dogs can smell fear because of a chemical secreted by human glands in a state of duress, the same chemical a dog’s prey secretes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A chemist seeking to understand the gene has no more opportune moment to capture the chemical nature of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He has looked closely at the chemical relationship between drugs and technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Not even in our lab on Wednesday, when I broke our watch glass, spilling chemicals all over the table. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Although we are warned that some of these will dissolve varnish, paint, and synthetic fabrics, we are presumably to infer that the human skin is impervious to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet this chemical, a form of benzene hexachloride, is much used in vaporizers, devices that pour a stream of volatilized insecticide vapor into homes, offices, restaurants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The day the chemical company came, Roberto and I missed school to help with the fumigation. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Apparently the blackflies, sand flies, and tsetse flies have not yet become resistant to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We now know that about eight such chemicals—mostly proteins—are made by the fly during the development of the egg and deposited asymmetrically in the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At first, Brenner reported, all he could see in the experiment was the chemical equivalent of thick “California fog—wet, cold, silent.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This quality is possessed by some chemicals of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group and by others of the organophosphorus group, all synthetically produced, as well as by certain naturally occurring substances. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Marshall Laird, who has described this incident, compares chemical control to a treadmill; once we have set foot on it we are unable to stop for fear of the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chemicals in his brain were so depleted he wasn’t going to come awake even for the storm. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In the Southwest an estimated 75 million acres of mesquite lands require management by some means, and chemical spraying is the method most actively pushed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The most important proteins are enzymes, molecules that control the cell’s chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell this morning. Fireman in Seattle, purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Kill the monkeys—give them lethal injections— burn their carcasses, and drench the entire building with chemicals and fumes—a major biohazard operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the constant dripping of water that in turn wears away the hardest stone, this birth-to- death contact with dangerous chemicals may in the end prove disastrous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But after a few seconds the smell’s chemical properties seared his nostrils, and he covered his nose with his handkerchief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn’t until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The chemical treatments were continued, nevertheless, without consultation with either the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or the Illinois Game Management Division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They could not fathom its material form, its physical or chemical structure, its location within the body or inside the cell, or even its mechanism of action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The subject boiled down to this: Could Seaborg devise a chemical process for separating element 94 from the stew of radioactive fission products in which it was mixed after the bombardment of uranium? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That means using more chemical fertilizer or maybe trying new hybrid or GMO seeds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mutations occur when DNA is damaged by chemicals or X-rays, or when the DNA replication enzyme makes a spontaneous error in copying genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for the drug test, I might have stopped looking right then and there, but there has been a chemical indiscretion in recent weeks and I’m not at all sure I can pass. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now other laboratories of the Department are taking up the problem, testing chemicals against stable flies, mosquitoes, boll weevils, and an assortment of fruit flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You’d have to rely on chemical fertilizer from the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The mutants clearly lacked some factor—a chemical—that determines the front versus the back of the fly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For every chemical that is put on the conventional fields, Greenways finds a substitute for the organic fields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Her teacher said that the lemmings had a chemical similar to antifreeze in their blood, that kept them active all winter when other little mammals were hibernating. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the farmer scrupulously follows the instructions on the labels, his use of agricultural chemicals will produce no residues larger than are permitted by the Food and Drug Administration. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course, if something lived inside her glove, the chemical shower would not reach it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How flies and other insects detoxify the organic phosphorus chemicals is less clearly understood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then in the 1940’s the citrus growers began to experiment with glamorous new chemicals against other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A smog is technically a mixture of smoke, fog and chemical fumes but this was a mixture of smoke, smoke and more smoke. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z How could heat-killed bacterial debris—no more than a lukewarm soup of microbial chemicals—have transmitted a genetic trait to a live bacterium by mere contact? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He frightened her, telling her about the chemicals that were sprayed on crops, the chemicals fed to chickens to make them grow quickly, and the chemicals used to give fruits perfect skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Electrons determine the chemical properties of the atom—the glitter of gold, the cold feel of iron, the crystal structure of the carbon diamond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s impossible not to think that he had some substance on his hands, some chemical that is causing the bill to stick. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The potential new antibiotic is found in the chemical secretions of cockroaches. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It has now reached such proportions that an appalling deluge of chemical pollution is daily poured into the nation’s waterways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To these is added a new kind of fallout — the chemical sprays applied to croplands and gardens, forests and fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead of using something that might harm us, I mix a concoction of a surfactant, NaCl, and a chemical derivative of acetic acid—aka Dawn dish soap, salt, and vinegar. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The gene, Schrödinger posited, had to be made of a peculiar kind of chemical; it had to be a molecule of contradictions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, a good many chemicals also have the power to separate oxidation from energy production, and the insecticides and weed killers are well represented on the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There may be interaction, too, between a physical and a chemical agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I held it to my face and smelled the back of Ben’s wagon, spice and yeast with the bitter tang of acids and chemical salts mingled in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My mouth filled up with the taste that I knew so well from Aaron’s room—a chemical taste, buzzy and light. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers are another example of how readily unsound methods catch on. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though sharing a chemistry lab with kids who were always texting while mixing chemicals was terrifying, even last fall when it wasn’t my End Day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Yet between April 1958 and December 1961 several hundred chemicals were screened at the Orlando laboratory for a possible sterilizing effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But to do the policing job properly would cost money beyond any legislator’s courage to appropriate, given the present volume and toxicity of agricultural chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Quentin sighed and then explained in some detail the chemical’s properties. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But what was the chemical identity of the “message” that was built from a gene? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The simplest explanation, then, was that genetic information had passed between the two strains in a chemical form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Guess there’s a lot of chemicals in there.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That the anti-tumor properties of any number of chemicals are being explored. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little- recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world — the very nature of its life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the absence of key nutrients, a severe chemical imbalance develops in the brain, inducing convulsions and hallucinations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the typical illustration portrays a happy family scene, father and son smilingly preparing to apply the chemical to the lawn, small children tumbling over the grass with a dog. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Scientists of the Dutch Plant Protection Service did not recommend chemical sprays or soil treatments; instead, they suggested that marigolds be planted among the roses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Herschel had little doubt that chemical, and, ultimately, biological phenomena, would also be attributed to such cause-and-effect mechanisms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What other parallels may there be, not only in Colorado but wherever chemical pollution finds its way into public waters? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To understand how chemicals can alter the course of heredity, we must first watch the basic drama of life as it is played on the stage of the living cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He reached up with his hands and grabbed the pipes that fed chemicals into the shower, to hold himself up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Encoded in that molecule were the loci of human perfectibility and vulnerability: once we learned to manipulate this chemical, we would rewrite our nature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z With the development of chemicals of broad lethal powers, there came a sudden change in the official attitude toward the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It cannot do so, however, if it has been damaged by disease or chemicals, or if the supply of the B-complex vitamins has been reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He wanted to know everything about the faranji and their workshops—the diagrams on their drafting tables, the chemicals in their flasks, the dreams in their heads. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Every time we add one or more protons and enough neutrons to keep the nucleus together, we make a new chemical element. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tesla told us that we had to mix chemicals until we succeeded in making something explode. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “But how do you make chemicals, Linda? Where do they come from?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The advantages of such control over chemicals are obvious: it is relatively inexpensive, it is permanent, it leaves no poisonous residues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But it is doubtful if he has an awareness of being caught in an aerosol of chemical attract- ant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way I believe geographical, chemical, historical facts etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The heavy smell of chemicals hung in the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The means by which insects resist chemicals probably vary and as yet are not thoroughly understood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But jellyfish love a warm ocean, the chemicals don’t hurt jellyfish one bit, and they carry all the oxygen they need right inside their watery selves. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He didn’t know the Italian for Hello, where are your dangerous chemicals, please? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But organic fertilizers have not come close to replacing the chemicals that state farms depended on for decades. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As this physician emphasizes, pure exposure to a single chemical is the exception, rather than the rule. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I rolled that word around in my head for a while and then, in the chemical way that these things happen, it just popped out: My God, he’s telling me the world is flat! The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Mom chimed in that all the junk food Maureen ate had led to a chemical imbalance, and Brian started yelling at them all to shut the hell up or he’d arrest them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Fire is not made of chemical elements at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Paper goods, linen that would go up in smoke, toxic paints and chemicals. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In the chemical brightness Milton saw the patriarchal beard, the pale, waxen cheeks, and—most tellingly—the tiny five-foot-four frame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This situation also explains the otherwise mystifying fact that certain outstanding entomologists are among the leading advocates of chemical control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They can bind colored chemicals and become pigments in the eye, or in a flower. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They waited for several minutes while the chemicals penetrated the paper and sterilized it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This is because these chemicals are soluble in fat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The full scope of the dangerous interaction of chemicals is as yet little known, but disturbing findings now come regularly from scientific laboratories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The explanation of this peculiar behavior sometimes appears to lie in the changes which the chemical brings about in the metabolism of the plant itself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet awareness of the fact that insects possess an effective counterweapon to aggressive chemical attack seems to have dawned slowly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the new organic chemicals and new methods for their intensive application, resistance began a meteoric rise that reached the alarming level of 137 species in i960. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I don’t think there’s any meat in a Finkle, but she won’t eat them anyway because of all the chemicals and preservatives. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The reactions may be between two or more chemicals, or between chemicals and the radioactive wastes that are being discharged into our rivers in ever-increasing volume. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z New chemicals were added, better spraying equipment was devised, and the zeal for spraying increased, but the insect problem did not get any better. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What is the chemical nature of these secretions? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Only now they weren’t chemical explosions; they were studies of plants, mostly orchids and a flower called Vrosera. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them has a twitchy face from the chemical attacks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Even the chemical industry recognizes the frequent misuse of insecticides and the need for education of farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Urethane belongs to the group of chemicals called carbamates, from which an increasing number of insecticides and other agricultural chemicals are drawn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An example of a carcinogen belonging to the group of new, organic pesticides is a chemical widely used against mites and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sarai was reeling with visions of explosions and contraptions and impossibly tall towers—and girls climbing impossibly tall towers—and magnets and saws and bridges and flasks of miraculous chemicals and...and...and flying machines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I waited while he went down in the basement and returned with my chemicals in a cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No chemicals means no toxic runoff into rivers and oceans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To give their false ginger the necessary tang they had introduced a chemical known as triorthocresyl phosphate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As rapidly as new chemicals were brought into use, resistance developed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When I was alone, I wandered and poked my fingers into strange chemicals, watched intricate machines trace red and black lines upon ruled paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Todd made his official visit late in the week, coming over from the chemical laboratory with several younger colleagues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Kathy mentioned the roving gangs, the toxic chemicals, the diseases that were being unearthed and spread. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z These contain an incredible variety of chemical additives and medicinal agents in addition to the basic foodstuffs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z DNA, by that same logic, is but a chemical—but, God, what a chemical. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The “action” of a gene is described in mechanistic terms: genes encode chemical messages to build proteins that ultimately enable form and function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead of treating the basic condition, suburbanites — advised by nurserymen who in turn have been advised by the chemical manufacturers — continue to apply truly astonishing amounts of crabgrass killers to their lawns each year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Newer maximums and mediums and many older ones have ceiling-mounted chemical agent dispensers in case of riot, and often an officer in an observation booth who can activate them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped he hadn’t ruined it by filling it with chemical powder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As required by law, he had tested the chemical on laboratory animals and submitted the results with his application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some of the insects that defy chemical control are thought to be aided by a structural advantage, but there seems to be little actual proof of this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So he cooked a new batch of chemicals, and took the alkahest over to the north anchor to test it again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The vast majority fall into one of two large groups of chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His clothes and even his shoes had that chemical stink. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “You’ve smelled rotten eggs? That’s sulfur dioxide, released from the chemical reaction of rotting organic material. This is going to stink just like that.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, then, there is little basis for the hope or belief that the gonads of any organism are shielded from chemicals in the environment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Just like the chemicals that made up Agent Orange. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Although the chemical war went on in succeeding years, the trickle of research funds dried up completely. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Their professional prestige, sometimes their very jobs depend on the perpetuation of chemical methods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Civilian workers had masks and gloves to protect them from the chemicals, but we prisoners had no protection,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z We are going to have to do some very energetic research on other control measures, measures that 'will have to be biological, not chemical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sacks containing chemicals designed to rid the lawn of such despised vegetation have become almost a status symbol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, he did tell them that whatever chemical they had used to reveal the invisible ink had smelled awful. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z To read the message, the reader had to brush a second chemical on the paper; that chemical made the message visible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The seats were tattered, and there was an awful smell of chemicals and oil and the loud sound of the engine roaring as the bus pulled away from the curb. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see much of anything in here, in the chemical mist. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This process by which the cell functions as a chemical factory is one of the wonders of the living world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Pulling back each of Fig’s ears and peeking inside, Dr. Spires babbled on about chemical waste and blood and dysfunction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The Detroit experience has been repeated in many other communities as pressure has mounted to combat the Japanese beetle with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The testing of chemicals for a sterilizing effect is much more difficult than the testing of chemical poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As ground and surface waters are contaminated with pesticides and other chemicals, there is danger that not only poisonous but also cancer-producing substances are being introduced into public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Fruit then. Or vegetables. Make sure they’re washed. I don’t want any of your chemical poisons in my blood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I sat in science and technology, thinking how I'd pinch some chemicals and swallow them whole because I couldn't stand the thought of going back to being Paki-Boy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Chemically distinct from uranium and therefore theoretically separable by chemical means, element 94 appeared to be about five times more fissionable than uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Leukemia may occur as a two-step process, the malignant change being initiated by X-radiation, the promoting action being supplied by a chemical, as, for example, urethane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Next, he had to stand still while his skin was coated with a chemical disinfectant to kill lice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z On the Earth before life, there may already have been chemical processes resembling respiration and photosyn thesis cycling in the soil, perhaps to be incorporated by life once it arose. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dieldrin has been the only chemical effective against the borer, but it has now set in motion a chain of disaster. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Heptachlor, the chemical chiefly used, is only slightly less toxic to fish than DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When this chemical was introduced in 1955, the manufacturer applied for a tolerance which would sanction the presence of small residues on any crops that might be sprayed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These antiseptic measures worked because the chemicals killed bacteria. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I used manure not because of anything Mr. Loomis had said but because we always did; it makes the garden grow better than the chemical fertilizer. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As you may recall from chapter four, although the U.S. government allows atrazine spraying, the chemical is already banned in Europe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One could be made visible by holding the paper over the flame of a candle; the other could be read by applying a common chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z These patrols roamed the streets at night, ready to put out small fires with chemical extinguishers and turn in alarms for bigger blazes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The ones who don't want to pay at the dump, or got dangerous chemicals, or think we're such slobs down here we won't mind another load of junk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The question of chemical residues on the food we eat is a hotly debated issue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It sounds like the stuff they use to make chemical weapons.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Washington wanted an ink that was more complicated, an ink that could not be read merely by heating the paper or by coating it with an ordinary chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By the time Ali Shekari was thirteen, the war planes were practicing dropping chemicals instead of regular bombs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I’d avoided talking to him all day, but the lab forced me to relay data about chemical reactions with certain types of metals so he could write it down. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z All his chemical intuition told him that it would occur in the keto form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The players were injected with low levels of a chemical called raclo- pride. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The chemical industry is perhaps understandably loath to face up to the unpleasant fact of resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the chemical penetrated the soil the poisoned beetle grubs crawled out on the surface of the ground, where they remained for some time before they died, attractive to insect-eating birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The other set was grown conventionally with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Although we know that the chemicals have almost certainly undergone change during the long period of transit, we do not know whether the altered chemical is more toxic than the original or less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Economic entomologists must realize,” wrote A. D. Pickett of Nova Scotia, “that they are dealing with living things . . . their work must be more than simply insecticide testing or a quest for highly destructive chemicals.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If dropped to the floor by a child or careless adult everyone nearby could be splashed with the same chemical that has sent spraymen using it into convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The horizontal rows, meanwhile, arrange the chemicals in ascending order by the number of protons in their nuclei–what is known as their atomic number. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Apparently the chemical remained in the mud of the pond bottom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dead birds found in the treated areas had absorbed or swallowed the poisons used against the fire ants, a fact clearly shown by chemical analysis of their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He didn't have a strong science background and didn't know much about chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Usually he felt a stir of eagerness at this part of a chemical procedure—a thrill to create something no one else could, and alter the very structure of nature. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For one, it was radiation- poisoned ash; for the other, chemical dust. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But this illustration gives little hint of the true complexity of the chemical world of the hydrocarbons, or of the manipulations by which the organic chemist creates his infinitely varied materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The kitchen filled with a smelly chemical steam, but after a few hours there was a layer of brown crystals in the bottom of the pan. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We gather at the foot of the ladder, waiting for our eyes to adjust to the dim strips of lights, breathing in the mixture of chemicals, mildew, and sewage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Might the other chemical elements have somehow evolved from hydrogen and helium? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought I’d end up in a place like this, he thought, as he leafed through the pages of a chemical journal. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Journeying abroad initially appeared the perfect solution to the complete lack of chemical facts in my head, a condition at times encouraged by my Ph.D. supervisor, the Italian-trained microbiologist Salvador Luria. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Each of these leaves clasps, at its center, an iron-containing chemical named heme that can bind oxygen—a reaction distantly akin to a controlled form of rusting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The scent—a mix of chemicals and coconut—filled the air. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The tone of the manuscript, however, argued against any such advance in chemical theory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He saw the principal role of chemistry as finding out what things are made of, and coined the term ‘chemical analysis’ to describe this process. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Kalckar, however, was obviously cultivated, and Luria hoped that in his civilized, continental company I would learn the necessary tools to do chemical research, without needing to react against the profit-oriented organic chemists. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He used tongs to place the paper in the first tray, containing washing chemicals. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Pesticide chemicals had accumulated in her body and weakened the eggshells. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For some chemicals no practical field method of analysis exists before a chemical is registered for use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This difficulty greatly hampered the work on the “cranberry chemical,” aminotriazole. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It carried the black and acrid smell of coal—and something else, a chemical smell, maybe something they added to make the fires burn hotter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Many chemicals used as pesticides — herbicides as well as insecticides — belong to this group of substances that have the ability to damage the chromosomes, interfere with normal cell division, or cause mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The whole process took a lot longer than I imagined it would, and the smell of chemicals irritated my eyes and nose. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He helped load and unload chemicals into railroad cars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He had only enough time to observe that there was someone beside him before something wet was forced over his nose and mouth, and he tasted harsh, chemical fumes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In conclusion, the officer assured us that the chemical agent, “once you’re out of it, will be nothing more than a painful memory.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps nothing better typifies the strange and often accidental nature of chemical science in its early days than a discovery made by a German named Hennig Brand in 1675. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The plant where Gold worked, Black explained, used cutting-edge processes to produce many useful chemicals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We took off our shirts and shook our hair, since the chemical agent lingered in both. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned the tap and washed the yellow chemical soap down the drain. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When sprayed, the colonies disperse as the mites, irritated though not killed by the chemicals, scatter out in search of places where they will not be disturbed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper now gives DDT the definite rating of a “chemical carcinogen.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “This flower survived in the face of chemicals and toxins, and it turned all that death into something beautiful. That miracle field, Natalie, that’s the happiest place in the world.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Gibbs walked over to the freshly ignited fire and said, “Why don’t we use the ship chemical fire instead of that wood?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned away and pushed a photo around in one of the chemical trays. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But the broader problem, which we shall look at now, is the fact that our chemical attack is weakening the defenses inherent in the environment itself, defenses designed to keep the various species in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is a cheaper and better way to remove crabgrass than to attempt year after year to kill it out with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Drink this, too. It'll change the chemical index of your perspiration. Half an hour from now you'll smell like two other people. With the Hound after you, the best thing is Bottoms up.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The public came to imagine that physics held the key to all phenomena of the natural world, including the chemical and the biological. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “But that’s inside our house. The outside one’s for bodily waste, full of quaternary ammonium compound chemicals. You know, like that stinky blue soup at the bottom of a porta potty.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Except for whatever chemical it was that got into Cassius’ eyes and blinded him temporarily in the fourth and fifth rounds, the fight went according to his plan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The obvious difficulties of sterilizing by radiation have led to search for an easier method of accomplishing similar results, and there is now a strongly running tide of interest in chemical sterilants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chemical chosen for a fresh attack was DDD, a close relative of DDT but apparently offering fewer threats to fish life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a magic in living through that chemical poison, and Mom was the first one to realize it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Drave required a warehouse to store his powder and chemicals, and Lazlo saw to it that he had one—outside the city, in case of fiery misadventure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He would never be a chemical engineer, and he would not be able to marry his high school sweetheart, who had followed him to Seattle so they could begin to build a life together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Zamborska says that the chemicals it takes to keep the pool, golf course, and grounds lovely would fertilize the wheat fields of a small nation. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most sinister features of DDT and related chemicals is the wav they are passed on from one organism to another through all the links of the food chains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The town was contaminated with toxic amounts of metal and chemicals in the soil, but all the people were safe. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sam can do the lawn with the chemicals from his job. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, switched over to making chemical fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They’re exposed to chemicals, sunlight, and different environments, all of which can cause DNA changes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Lister recommended that doctors put a diluted carbolic acid solution on wounds after injury or surgery and also soak bandages and dressings in the chemical. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By their constant contact with the chemicals these men keep themselves desensitized — as an allergist keeps his patients desensitized by repeated small injections of the allergen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And this one had found a way of making chocolate out of sugar, chemicals, brown coloring and vegetable oil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Over and over again, I was struck by how healthy their animals were—all without a single ounce of antibiotics or chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Schrödinger was trying to conjure up a chemical that would capture the divergent, contradictory qualities of heredity—a molecule to satisfy Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The makeshift hospital at Erudite headquarters smells like chemicals, almost gritty in my nose. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z By late spring, construction was well along on five Alpha racetracks, two Betas, and a host of outbuildings for chemical processing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He washes his own equipment and uniforms after every practice and game, though, and he takes showers that seem like the kind that workers get after there’s a chemical leak at a nuclear power plant. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Genes had been described as “particles of heredity,” but that description carried no information about what that “particle” was in a chemical or physical sense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Or a group of science people doing research about plankton or the chemicals found in floating seaweed, all these waterproof monitors beeping and flashing next to ’em on deck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Although Frederick Griffith’s experiment was the most definitive demonstration that the gene was a chemical, other scientists were also circling the idea. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the pre-DDT era, inorganic chemicals, applied on a scale that today would seem extraordinarily modest, produced here and there strains of insects that could survive chemical spraying or dusting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How it sucked those toxic chemicals straight out of the earth and churned them into beauty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In human populations exposed to urethane or related chemicals there is a possibility that tumors will develop in infants through prenatal exposure, as Dr. Hueper has warned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Unlike the other constituents, they obeyed no simple-minded rules telling us the angles at which they would form their respective chemical bonds. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Many thousands of gallons of chemicals have been discharged along roadsides in the name of ragweed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The poison might be a defense against being eaten, or it might just be one of the chemicals the fungus needs to do its work that happens to be toxic to humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A very general system of chemical communication between living things of all kinds, plant and animal, has been termed “allelochemics” by Whittaker. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The principal targets of physical or chemical mutagenic agents are cells that are undergoing especially active division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The herbicides, then, like the insecticides, include some very dangerous chemicals, and their careless use in the belief that they are “safe” can have disastrous results. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You would have to have a gray area—an air lock with a chemical shower of some kind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is fortunate that at least during these early stages most of the men working with chemosterilants seem mindful of the need to find safe chemicals and safe methods of application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We’d decided to use food-coloring gel instead of laundry dye because the gel wasn’t made with chemicals that would harm the sea life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The arrows did not signify chemical transformations, but instead expressed the transfer of genetic information from the sequences of nucleotides in DNA molecules to the sequences of amino acids in proteins. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He described scenes of devastation—forests turned to deserts by American chemicals, villages burning, children wounded by American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The air was heavy and full of smoke, and of other smells besides: acrid chemicals, decaying vegetable matter, sewage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to “encode” a radical change in human fate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tests on birds indicate that the epoxide that results from this change is more toxic than the original chemical, which in turn is four times as toxic as chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Not much to see. First three aisles are for hair. Shampoo, conditioner, extensions, dyes, lots of chemical things I don’t understand. Aisle three is makeup. Aisle four is equipment.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Within easy reach of a child’s exploring hand are chemicals in glass containers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They had no tools to stanch a fire, and no plan at all for what they might do to put out a chemical inferno. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And then for hours after school each day he makes potions, mixing chemicals that stink up the house, causing sparks to fly from shaved bits of iron, puffs of smoke to pop from strange-colored liquids. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z In a Massachusetts community the town officials purchased a weed killer from a zealous chemical salesman, unaware that it contained arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Harold Morowitz has calculated what it would cost to put together the correct molecular constituents that make up a human being by buying the molecules from chemical supply houses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This overwhelming musk of animal waste and chemicals—almost like the odor of salt water and unwashed bodies. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The chemical weed killers are a bright new toy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Caught in transit between two organisms, a gene exists momentarily as a pure chemical. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the chemicals in these Earth defoliants killed most fish and mammals too, as well as humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It also keeps some of that country’s land free from pesticides or chemical fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The chemical most popular with the farmers was toxaphene, one of the most destructive to fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chemical aimed at the fire ant had killed off the enemies of the borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The truth, seldom mentioned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded and that the insects are finding ways to circumvent our chemical attacks on them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In contrast, a chemical that would produce 90 per cent sterility would leave only 12 5 insects alive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Discovering the power of triads was like discovering a chemical reaction or a miracle cure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With furious concentration he sent for books, instruments, chemicals, all manner of tools and equipment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The chemicals may have been pretested against a few individual species, but not against living communities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Department’s all-out chemical war on the gypsy moth began on an ambitious scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Which scientists think is the neurotransmitter related to depression...If you have a lack of this chemical in your system, you can start to get depressed.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z As Dill hurried to class, he caught a whiff of some astringent industrial cleaning chemical. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The money was not altogether wasted—new chemical elements, such as phosphorus, antimony and mercury, were discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A substantial number of the remaining 98 per cent were engaged in research on chemical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Reports issued early in the year 1949 declared that the arsenic-resistant ticks could be controlled readily with the new chemical; later in the same year, a bleak notice of developing resistance had to be published. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Repetitive, rhythmic, regular, austere, this was a conveyer belt of a chemical, the nylon of the biochemical world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Almost immediately the German government recognized the value of these same chemicals as new and devastating weapons in man’s war against his own kind, and the work on them was declared secret. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I'm in a huge room filled with rows of gurneys and chemicals boiling under metal hoods. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z To an ever-increasing degree, chemicals used for the control of insects, rodents, or unwanted vegetation contribute to these organic pollutants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The train flew over its pylons, curving toward the center of the trade nexus, speeding over brackish water, bright with leaked waste oil and scrap trash and the stink of chemicals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Grain by grain, molecule by molecule, carbohydrate fuel in the form of glucose is fed into this wheel; in its cyclic passage the fuel molecule undergoes fragmentation and a series of minute chemical changes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those who want immediate results, at whatever cost, will doubtless continue to use chemicals against the beetle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The fact that chemicals may play a role similar to radiation has scarcely dawned on the public mind, nor on the minds of most medical or scientific workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to think about what I had left behind at the Stockyards, or who had seized me, or why the taste of chemicals lingered sweet and strange on my tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Those chemicals have been proven to cause cancer, damage nerve cells, and disrupt your endocrine system—your hormones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z William pulled a beaker out of the clamp and held it up to the light, watching the soft fizz of the chemicals inside. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z If researchers wanted to figure out how cells behaved in a certain environment, or reacted to a specific chemical, or produced a certain protein, they turned to Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Another almost unexplored area is the question of interactions between chemicals, a question that becomes especially urgent when they enter the marine environment where so many different minerals are subjected to mixing and transport. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ms. Lisa, who worked in the cottage, steered me into the staff bathroom and poured water over my face to flush out the chemical. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Application at the recommended rates leaves tremendous amounts of these chemicals on the lawn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is also true of many of the chemicals now used against cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The desire for a quick and easy method of killing unwanted plants has given rise to a large and growing array of chemicals that are known as herbicides, or, less formally, as weed killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange imitate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little-understood interactions, transformations, and summations of effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’m staring at the note for a weirdly long time, and then I get this taste in my mouth, a horrible taste of something much worse than Mr. Landau’s chemical ribbon. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This is the opposite of what happened before chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Baking powder was never used; it was alleged to contain a chemical harmful to the body. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was four, my mother was diagnosed as “clinically depressed” because of a chemical imbalance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z On the other side of the coin is the fact that some extremely potent chemicals are involved. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To see DNA is to forget its name or its chemical formula. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The best and cheapest controls for vegetationTare not chemicals but other plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He tried to sweat the fever out of a patient by coating various parts of his or her body with a thick salve composed of herbs and chemicals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the same year the State of Alabama, alarmed and angry at the damage done by the chemicals, refused to appropriate any further funds for the project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "I was experimenting on chemical fertilizers," Theo replied, wincing as the doctor probed his shoulder for a glass shard. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it is not stored to any great extent when given alone, we are told that methoxychlor is a safe chemical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How could chemical debris carry genetic information from one cell to another? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On Rack 10 rows of next generation’s chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Subtle and vastly important chemical changes are constantly in progress, converting elements derived from air and water into forms suitable for use by plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All had normal medical histories before the chemicals they were using boomeranged and struck them down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Prisoners who had been there for several years were psychologically and I believe to some extent physically adapted to this chemical castration. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t care what she says about love and chemicals. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The effect of a chemical of supposedly innocuous nature can be drastically changed by the action of another; one of the best examples is a close relative of DDT called methoxychlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The hopeful question is sometimes asked, “If insects can become resistant to chemicals, could human beings do the same thing?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But of course limelight is white, not green—chemical lime, not citrus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Inevitably it follows that intensive spraying with powerful chemicals only makes worse the problem it is designed to solve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then she reached back inside the air lock and pulled the chain in the chemical shower. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1960s, George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This flushing had undoubtedly released insecticides lodged in the accumulation of gravel, sand, and rubble and carried them into the lake and thence to the river, where chemical tests later established their presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This situation also means that today the average individual almost certainly starts life with the first deposit of the growing load of chemicals his body will be required to carry thenceforth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Less a sense of heat and more of intense pain as the chemicals find our flesh, cling to it, and burrow down through the layers of skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One of Jack’s jobs was at a chemical plant. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Proteins coax and control these fundamental chemical reactions in the cell—speeding some and slowing others, pacing the reactions just enough to be compatible with living. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Maybe they challenged each other to repeat long chemical formulas? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It had been contaminated with toxic chemicals over a century ago. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Not only the target insect or plant, but anything — human or nonhuman — within range of the chemical fallout may know the sinister touch of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When a man makes his fortune in oil or government contracts, in chemicals or wholesale groceries, his first act is to buy a ranch, the largest he can afford, and to run some cattle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But since the linkages between the nucleotides involved only the phosphate and sugar groups, our assumption that the same type of chemical bond linked all the nucleotides together was not affected. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z So working out DNA’s chemical structure might be the essential step in learning how genes duplicated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The crowbar to wreck the wheels of oxidation can be supplied by any of a number of chemicals commonly used as pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Five or six large test prints were tacked up, each one showing the industrial landscape of a chemical plant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The men took chemical showers under the gray- area tarp, to decon their space suits after a visit to the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t think of any animal that liked to eat roaches, so I suggested we buy roach spray, like all our neighbors did, but Mom was opposed to chemical warfare. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But even then we could not mix those chemicals together and have a human being emerge from the jar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, even though technology is not classified as “addictive,” some neuroscience points to stark similarities between how technology use and drug use trigger chemical release in the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You come to know the pattern of your particular chemical bombardment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Most of those best fitted to develop natural controls and assist in putting them into effect have been too busy laboring in the more exciting vineyards of chemical control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Such materials, present as contaminants in water that also contains chemicals, may actually change the nature of the chemicals by the impact of ionizing radiation, rearranging their atoms in unpredictable ways to create new chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In contrast to chemicals, insect pathogens are harmless to all but their intended targets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As for the air, it’s so full of chemicals we should be wearing gas masks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Chromatin—the biological structure where genes resided—was known to be made of two types of chemicals: proteins and nucleic acids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The first necessity is the elimination of tolerances on the chlorinated hydrocarbons, the organic phosphorus group, and other highly toxic chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Faraci was reviewing the different types of chemical reactions when the door at the front of the class swung open to admit a guy I didn’t recognize. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The study showed that the organic fruits and vegetables contained higher levels of vitamin C. They also had a wider range of natural chemicals called polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some people can’t taste the chemical at all, and to them the paper will just taste like paper. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “My brain just makes the wrong chemicals is all.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Video ’n’ Go always smelled too strongly of some carpet cleaner they used, like chemical roses, and I began to associate that smell with Nate—as if it radiated from him. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In 1919, Rutherford had become the first scientist to achieve the medieval fantasy of chemical transmutation: by bombarding nitrogen with radioactivity, he had converted it into oxygen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He could not furnish the “proof” we would demand today, but modern research methods have now isolated the deadly chemical in soot and proved the correctness of his perception. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Digby was advocating a much simpler chemical powder which could be dissolved in water and easily carried with one into battle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These natural chemicals are important for a healthy diet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He wished his mother believed in chemical warfare. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The discovery of a fissile isotope that could be separated from its parent by chemical means might quell the skepticism still bogging down the uranium program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “They may. Once they’re within a mile, they can torch the parasail with a chemical round.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Since the chemical was acidic, its name was later modified to nucleic acids—but the cellular function of nuclein had remained mysterious. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This can take a while and involves chemicals so you may want to have a book hand. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The book became a best seller and convinced many citizens and politicians of the dangers posed by indiscriminate spraying of DDT and other chemicals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A period of 15 to 30 years or even more has been demonstrated for some cancers caused by occupational exposures to chemical carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Unlike Civil War surgeons who used antiseptic chemicals after a wound became infected, Lister's goal was to kill microbes in wounds before they caused an infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ivanov went to see George Eltenton, a chemical engineer known to be sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The chemical is also a radioactive isotope, which means it can be visualized using a PET scan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z So will those who favor the modern trend to built-in obsolescence, for chemical control is self-perpetuating, needing frequent and costly repetition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were many strong smells, chemical smells and the sweet smell of blood. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Alexander feels that any conceivable use of such chemicals in insect control would be “open to the most severe objections.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The air changed, quivering the way it will when people are near, with chemicals, with pulsing heat, with human-ness. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In short, the Department of Agriculture embarked on its program without even elementary investigation of what was already known about the chemical to be used — or if it investigated, it ignored the findings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet the chemicals they contained are among those the Food and Drug Administration considers too dangerous for human consumption, even in minute quantities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She just kept raising her kids, working various jobs as a barber, notary public, chemical mixer at a cement plant, grocery store clerk, limousine driver. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z An individual may have many different exposures to the same chemical. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By the time I reached my thirties, my brain had been strip-mined by a combination of drugs, alcohol, and the chemical solvents used at the refinishing company where I worked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z This useful function is of course lost where chemical weed killers have been used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I just want to learn about what you’re doing. I could mix up your chemicals or file your papers or whatever. Anything.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This capacity, Beadle understood, was due to the presence of enzymes within the cell—proteins that acted as master builders and could synthesize complex biological macromolecules out of basic precursor chemicals. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed of where you were?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Gold’s former employer, a chemical plant called the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, was hiring again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One day Kamen was summoned to the office of financial fuss- budget Don Cooksey, who instructed him to prepare a detailed requisition for equipment to perform chemical assays—and not to worry about the cost. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet most of the chemicals now used kill all insects, our friends and enemies alike. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It might take me a little while to concoct this new chemical confection,” said the scientist. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Working with mustard gas, they found that this chemical produces permanent chromosome abnormalities that cannot be distinguished from those induced by radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When I got to the bottom, I smelled the darkroom—chemicals, vinegar, and something sweet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Then you drench the place with chemicals and fumes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For situations where mounds are numerous and mechanized methods are desirable, a cultivator which first levels and then applies chemical directly to the mounds has been developed by Mississippi’s Agricultural Experiment Station. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet new and more deadly chemicals are added to the list each year and new uses are devised so that contact with these materials has become practically worldwide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No chemicals in the juice and no ink wasted on decorative labels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Small pieces of fiberboard were impregnated with the two chemicals and were distributed by air over the entire island chain to attract and kill the male flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The amount spent for research was therefore a small fraction of 1 per cent of the outlay for the chemical program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For why should I get excited learning boring chemical facts as long as the chemists never provided anything incisive about the nucleic acids? Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Trees within the Connecticut Arboretum Natural Area were seriously injured when the town of Waterford sprayed the roadsides with chemical weed killers in 1957. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We refined the trigger chemical, created a once-a-day pill. Over a few months, our old faces came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There is no dearth of men who understand these things, but these are not the men who order the wholesale drenching of the landscape with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The leaves are just starting to spot brown with defoliant and I can still smell the sour chemical in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z No fossil fuels or added fertilizer or chemicals needed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, it is important to realize that chemical spraying of forest insects is neither the only way nor the best way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “With daily doses of this trigger chemical, the plastic will gradually melt away and be absorbed into the body. Your face goes back to where it started. More or less.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “So many chemicals around. We think it was.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The chemical came in two forms—DNA and RNA, molecular cousins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I read about some new chemicals to use.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were, they insisted, interested only in chemical processes which they could reproduce in their own laboratories and could then have certified by their colleagues. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What of other chemicals in the normal human environment? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Such plants are “weeds” only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was more than just pain nanites, she must have had all sorts of numbing, rejuvenating chemicals and microbots inside her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The high point in Chargaff’s scorn came when he led Francis into admitting that he did not remember the chemical differences among the four bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If one stuck in your hair and stung you, it sent out a chemical message as it died and all who received it were compelled to come and sting and die at the same place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As soon as I set my chemicals on the counter, the upstairs door opened. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Probably because it was the first generally practiced method of biological control, this setting of one insect against another is widely but erroneously thought to be the only alternative to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some of the defects and malformations in tomorrow’s children, grimly anticipated by the Office of Vital Statistics, will almost certainly be caused by these chemicals that permeate our outer and inner worlds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Guards gave each of them a bucket filled with a cloudy liquid that smelled, to Shin, like agricultural chemicals. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Back home, we always ate fresh chicken, no chemicals. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The same effect would probably be found with other chemicals were the matter investigated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Between the major groups of insecticides, and between them and other chemicals, there are interactions that have serious potentials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Bigger tractors and machines, chemical weed killers, and artificial fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, farmers in Louisiana showed growing reluctance to sign up for the project as it became evident that use of chemicals against the fire ant was causing an upsurge of insects destructive to sugarcane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Hardin County, Texas, for example, opossums, armadillos, and an abundant raccoon population virtually disappeared after the chemical was laid down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That they are now seriously threatened by the chemicals entering our waters can no longer be doubted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That he often smelled vaguely of chemicals—that in fact the building as a whole often had a medicinal odor—bothered no one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After all, this hospital is full of people having poisonous chemicals pumped into their veins or submitting to horrible operations all so they can stay, but some of them will die anyway. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were back hours later, with three-liter jars of the white chemical and a pair of long faces. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When pregnant mice are treated with this chemical not only do they develop cancer of the lung but their young do, also. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I looked through the chemicals in my set and picked the ones that would result in the same type of electron balance that occurred in the hydrogen-and-oxygen bond. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Although chemical manufacturers are required by law to test their materials for toxicity, they are not required to make the tests that would reliably demonstrate genetic effect, and they do not do so. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the day before, on Sunday, June 21, Dasch suddenly remembered the name of the malodorous chemical. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Ms. Bethune had prepared chemical baths in three trays and set them up in the long metal sink. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z These are chemicals with extraordinary properties which are used to convert plants or animals into a sort of Medea’s robe by making them actually poisonous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I have some chemicals in the garage that will send that stain to the Promised Land.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hans Krebs, the biochemist, was breaking open cells to identify their constituent chemical components. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In that case, the colors of Jupiter speak to us of chemical events that four billion years ago back on Earth led to the origin of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting lines permit us to tell that stars millions of light-years away contain the same chemical elements as our Sun and the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some behavioral habit may also place the insect out of reach of chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No one knows whether the same effect will be seen in human beings, yet this chemical has been sprayed from airplanes over suburban areas and farmlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It sucks all the chemicals and cells outside so we don’t have to breathe them in.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The growing exposure of the population to radiation from various sources, plus the many contacts with a host of chemicals suggest a grave new problem for the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In only about a hundred years in that city’s Central Park, its inscriptions have been almost totally obliterated, because of smog and industrial pollution—chemical erosion like that in the atmosphere of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The chemical processes Black wanted didn’t seem so secret, and if the information could really help the Soviets build a better society, why not share it? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried various chemicals and ways of applying them to wounds. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Because of the chickens, Joel doesn’t have to treat his cattle with toxic chemicals to get rid of parasites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Different molecules and chemical elements absorb different frequencies or colors of light, sometimes in the visible and sometimes elsewhere in the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her brow furrowed at the thought of glass beakers bubbling with potent chemicals. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, the vertical columns put together chemicals that have similar properties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At that time it was believed that insecticides — then inorganic chemicals — would solve the problems of insect control, that the only task was to induce fruit growers to follow the recommended methods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It takes 30 days to evaluate one chemical — although, of course, a number of tests can be run concurrently. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Good God! No wonder your heart went wonky! There’s a witch’s brew of chemicals in that soil. I want you to promise me never, never to go there again.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides the more than four million acres_of rangelands sprayed each year, tremendous areas of other types of land are also potential or actual recipients of chemical treatments for weed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This transient nature of the transmitting chemical is necessary to the normal functioning of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Under the stress of intensive chemical spraying the weaker members of the insect populations are being weeded out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You have these chemicals in your brain that carry messages from each brain cell to the next brain cell. They’re called neurotransmitters. And one of them is serotonin.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z And that corn is only cheap if you don’t count all the hidden costs, like the cost of pollution from chemical fertilizers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mutations also occur because of radioactivity or ultraviolet light from the Sun or cosmic rays or chemicals in the environment, all of which can change the nucleotides or tie the nucleic acids up in knots. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The faint tang of chemicals laced my every breath. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This piling up of chemicals from many different sources creates a total exposure that cannot be measured. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Before they would allow her to train with the hair treatment chemicals, she had to have a physical checkup. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The vast cyclic movements of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen through soil and air and living tissue could not proceed without these microplants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nova Scotia orchard- ists who are following Dr. Pickett’s modified spray program are producing as high a proportion of first-grade fruit as are those who are using intensive chemical applications. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chemical has also destroyed some important insect predators and so has caused an increase in the tortricids — small, stout-bodied moths whose larvae scar the surface of the bananas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Griffith’s and Muller’s experiments had pointed to a material substance, a chemical that could move between organisms and was quite easily altered by X-rays. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Today we often think of biological and chemical warfare as modern inventions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z To find a diet free from DDT and related chemicals, it seems one must go to a remote and primitive land, still lacking the amenities of civilization. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of the various components, he was particularly intrigued by one kind of chemical. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We can hang strips impregnated with the chemical lindane in our closets and garment bags or place them in our bureau drawers for a half year’s freedom from worry over moth damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s burning, giving off a rancid chemical smell. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The newest addition to the weapons is the use of chemical sprays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among the many advantages of selective spraying is the fact that it minimizes the amount of chemical applied to the landscape. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But in Delbriick’s world no chemical thought matched the power of a genetic cross. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The problem that concerns us here is whether any of the chemicals we are using in our attempts to control nature play a direct or indirect role as causes of cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At least with our level of chemical intuition, there was unlikely to be any single conformation much prettier than the rest. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In his magazine, Rodale wrote about the health benefits of growing food without synthetic chemicals— “organically.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes resistance develops so rapidly that the ink is scarcely dry on a report hailing successful control of a species with some specified chemical when an amended report has to be issued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is easy to see why leukemia should be one of the most common diseases to result from exposure to radiation or to chemicals that imitate radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His experiments showed that these germs could be killed by heat or particular chemicals. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, scientists were just beginning to understand living systems in chemical terms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It would be unrealistic to suppose that all chemical carcinogens can or will be eliminated from the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Some species of oak release a chemical that tells other oaks in the vicinity that an attack is under way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Whether released into soil or water or a man’s blood, these unrelated chemicals do not remain segregated; there are mysterious and unseen changes by which one alters the power of another for harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the end of a decade or more of intensive chemical control, entomologists were finding that problems they had considered solved a few years earlier had returned to plague them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals. from the moment of conception until death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Again the parallel between chemicals and radiation is exact and inescapable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The air smells like chemicals and old paper and warm bodies. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “He said that he wasn’t surprised, and when I asked him why, he said, ‘Well, now, you know molybdenum is a chemical element. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Turns out, through a neat set of chemical reactions with the Martian atmosphere, for every kilogram of hydrogen you bring to Mars, you can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Charcoal is like a chemical sponge,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Seed treatment is not a wholly new thing, but in earlier years the chemicals principally used were fungicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Out of an original population, the members of which vary greatly in qualities of structure, behavior, or physiology, it is the “tough” insects that survive chemical attack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The clays have a complex active surface, given to absorbing and releasing gases and to catalyzing chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Alar was a chemical conventional grow-ers sprayed on apples to help them ripen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They are called the chemical elements and until recently constituted everything on our planet, although they are mainly found combined into molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If this were not so, it is doubtful that any conceivable volume of chemicals — or any other methods — could possibly keep down their populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As they passed the primary school with its trimmed hedges of whistling pine, Ifemelu suddenly imagined that she was indeed pregnant, and the girl had used expired test chemicals in that dingy lab. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The committee also recommended more adequate controls to ensure that chemicals were adequately tested under field as well as laboratory conditions before being put on the market. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A second possibility was that some of the chemical called lithium hydroxide had gotten into our eyes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, I heard a puff of air and smelled chemical smoke. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Don’t they pump your body full of strange chemicals to prevent your skin from stretching and puckering, to keep your face from resembling a rubber mask? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z What was the chemical and physical nature of the gene? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sublethal levels of the chemical halt cell division in the gonads. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The fumes were very strong and burned our eyes and throats. If I had stayed there long, I believe the chemicals would have permanently damaged my lungs and eyes.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately, the chemical case was settled out of court, which meant that much of my document reviewing had been for nothing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A protein is created from twenty simple chemicals named amino acids—Methionine, Glycine, Leucine, and so forth—strung together in a chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture seems happy to have found among these even a handful of chemicals that show promise. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Certain chemicals, again reminding us of radiation products like Strontium 90, have a peculiar affinity for the bone marrow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second group consists of chemicals that act on the chromosomes, probably affecting the gene chemicals and causing the chromosomes to break up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although funds for chemical control came in never-ending streams, the biologists of the Illinois Natural History Survey who attempted to measure the damage to wildlife had to operate on a financial shoestring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Here and there we have dramatic evidence of the presence of these chemicals in our streams and even in public water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was wearing rubber gloves to keep this chemical relaxer off her own skin, which should have been my first clue that maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The second major group of insecticides, the alkyl or organic phosphates, are among the most poisonous chemicals in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Fish make use of chemical signals for the identification of individual members of a species, and also for the announcement of changes in the status of certain individuals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It must also have failed to do preliminary research to discover the minimum amount of the chemical that would accomplish its purpose. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The widespread neglect of the problem of chemical mutagens is perhaps due to the fact that those first discovered were of scientific interest only. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do they read Shakespeare?” asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the Bio chemical Laboratories, past the School Library. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet another specified an enzyme to break those chemical parts into subparts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The uniform reeked of sweat and a chemical odor that awoke evil memories in Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Quarantine and massive chemical campaigns are only extremely expensive ways of buying time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An agent used one chemical to write an invisible message. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The only course open to a manufacturer determined to exclude BHC residues is to reject all produce treated with the chemical or grown on soils contaminated with it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z First he put droplets of cells from the monkey culture onto glass slides, and let them dry, and treated them with chemicals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On its website, a history of the company makes no mention of lead–or indeed of Thomas Midgley–but simply refers to the original product as containing "a certain combination of chemicals." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The major chemical companies are pouring money into the universities to support research on insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Leo brought out his first weapon—a lump of dried chemicals wrapped in aluminum foil—and lit it with his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now they removed all your blood and pumped in chemicals and stuff. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A yard below, a poisonous brew of human waste, garbage, and chemical runoff bubbles by us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Whatever its chemical constituents, the transforming principle was not composed of sugars, lipids, or proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His clothes and even his shoes had that chemical stink. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z "Peroxide is a very powerful chemical. It's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z A chemical change was taking place in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In fact, if I had to synthesize my own enzymes, if I consciously had to remember and direct all the chemical steps required to get energy out of food, I would probably starve. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what causes them to mix, Horace? This chemical reaction you speak of—what is it?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But Kornberg’s synthesis of DNA had created order out of disorder—a gene out of its chemical subunits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In those days the atom had not been split and few of the chemicals that were to duplicate radiation had as yet been conceived in the test tubes of chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So she knows: love is just chemicals and coincidence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes’ research in any supermarket is enough to alarm the most stouthearted customer — provided, that is, he has even a rudimentary knowledge of the chemicals presented for his choice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is free of pitch or sap, but its fibers contain chemicals called thujaplicins that act as natural preservatives, making it highly resistant to rot while at the same time lending it its lovely scent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I waved at Ms. Faraci when I entered, but she was busy drawing chemical structures on the board and didn’t notice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z So far in this chapter we have been discussing the deadly chemicals that are being used in our war against the insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All chemical reactions complete, the sheet was sterilized and moved to a clean room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no “high-minded orientation,” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His study discussed transformation as a curiosity of microbial biology, but never explicitly mentioned the discovery of a potential chemical basis of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the chemical nature enables its physiological function, and its physiology ultimately permits its biological activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These weed-killing chemicals are sold under brand names that never suggest their identity or nature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Reports said that the blaze had begun in her office, in the early hours of the morning, and that the medicines and chemicals that she stored there caused it to burn quickly out of control. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Warburg believes that either radiation or a chemical carcinogen acts by destroying the respiration of normal cells, thus depriving them of energy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some scientists who are willing to concede the potent effect of environmental radiation on man nevertheless question whether mutagenic chemicals can, as a practical proposition, have the same effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They found that if they cleaned an infected wound with chemicals such as carbolic acid, bromine, nitric acid, and iodine, they could sometimes heal it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "Good old reliable H2S04, an oily, colorless, corrosive liquid used in dyes, paints, explosives, and many chemical experiments." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It had given her pleasure, buying chocolate bars from the newsstand, cheap bars filled with sugar and chemicals and other genetically modified ghastly things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the end, because the poisonous chemicals get widely distributed, humans may become sick, too. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as environmental cancers are induced by a wide variety of chemical and physical agents, so the malignant condition itself is manifested in many different and biologically distinct ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How could the chemical have built up to such prodigious levels in the grebes? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At Chicago, the students hoarded their meager supplies of chemical reagents and worked behind closed doors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With the advent of DDT and the even more toxic chemicals to follow, the populations of the vedalia in many sections of California were wiped out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In one such study, a doctor who had no specialized training in chemical pathology undertook a five-year program in which volunteers were asked to breathe in or swallow lead in elevated quantities. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The “agricultural engineers” speak blithely of “chemical plowing” in a world that is urged to beat its plowshares into spray guns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dr. Pickett uses special care to select chemicals that wiH do as little harm as possible to insect parasites and predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After the wind died down, a chemical gas was pumped in through a hose from a metal tank loaded on the bed of a large truck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The situation is made even more complicated by the fact that one chemical may act on another to alter its effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If the best antidote for poisons is dilution, what better dilution than a chemical designed to add water and oxygen constantly for hundreds of years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Today it’s possible for scientists to immortalize cells by exposing them to certain viruses or chemicals, but very few cells have become immortal on their own as Henrietta’s did. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The ultimate answer is to use less toxic chemicals so that the public hazard from their misuse is greatly reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I used to love these, with their mixture of nutmeg and molasses, but now all I could taste was the weird rush of sugar, the tang of chemicals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The body’s chemical plants, they gulp in oxygen and release the energy-rich molecules that power life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The full maturing of whatever seeds of malignancy have been sown by these chemicals is yet to come. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The mound-building habit of the fire ant makes the chemical treatment of individual mounds a simple matter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Given what we do know about the dangers of these chemicals, it makes sense to keep them out of a kid’s diet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A gene, whatever it was, was capable of motion, transmission, and of energy-induced change—properties generally associated with chemical matter. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A long list of what appear to be chemicals is posted on the wall beside our pictures. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals — eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones — we had better know something about their nature and their power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The chemosterilants of this group are alkylating agents, which are extremely reactive chemicals, capable of intense cell destruction, damage to chromosomes, and production of mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They happened every so often, depending on temperature and the level of chemicals in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I may be a non-taster, but when Mr. Landau hands out those chemical papers and tells us to put them in our mouths, I can run for water like everyone else. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Under the impact of ionizing radiation some rearrangement of atoms could easily occur, changing the nature of the chemicals in a way that is not only unpredictable but beyond control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These chemicals are what make modern processed foods possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His technique was to expose a variety of chemical compounds to energizing sunlight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We are marked as self by the chemicals we leave beneath the soles of our shoes, as unmistakably and individually as by the membrane surface antigens detectable in homografts of our tissues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Better information has led to later reduction or withdrawal of the tolerance, but only after the public has been exposed to admittedly dangerous levels of the chemical for months or years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He reeks of harsh, toxic chemicals, smelling the way a battery tastes when you lick the ends. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was a compound of rotten fish, excrement, and vomit, with a sweet chemical odor that was worse than the other smells put together. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another year, there was only one kid in the whole class who didn’t taste the chemical stuff, and he got killed by a drunk driver the summer after his sophomore year. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Farther down the beach, the old-world wrecks still lay black on the sand like mangled bodies, still leaking oil and chemicals, still swarming with workers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Even without such complications, normal agricultural use subjects fish to far heavier concentrations of chemicals than would be required to kill them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She must be around sixty, but she still looks strong, and there’s no sign she’s turned to liquor or morphling or any other chemical form of escape over the years. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The organic food in stores like Whole Foods is organic because it is grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sections of Michigan, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri are all experiencing a rain of chemicals in the name of beetle control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We allow the chemical death rain to fall as though there were no alternative, whereas in fact there are many, and our ingenuity could soon discover many more if given opportunity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he rummaged through the cabinets and took out enough chemicals to create a small nuclear bomb. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then a group of three chemical plant workers developed acute poisoning from exposure to other insecticides of this group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Plants gather the photons and convert solar to chemical energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Schrödinger imagined a chemical with multiple chemical bonds stretching out along the length of the “chromosome fiber.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He accidentally knocked a tray of chemicals off the counter and made an Orange mushroom cloud in the trash can. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was an oxidizer, which, when combined with other chemicals, produced heat and gas, necessary to make a rocket fly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Rahajamati. His article attacks Tanida’s theory of enzyme fusion—the concept of changing the chemical structure of the enzyme blocking the step in the metabolic pathway.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The rancher had the soil tested and found out that the chemicals used to prepare it had been too strong; they had killed the plants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They use an inflatable raft and a Jeep and a rope and more coconuts and some special chemicals. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I hugged him tight, his fur smelling like a mix of dogs and vet chemicals, pungent and sterile. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The chemical also causes severe bums to the skin of the urinater. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z In 1786, aged just forty-three, he was found dead at his workbench surrounded by an array of toxic chemicals, any one of which could have accounted for the stunned and terminal look on his face. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Scientists at the Department of Agriculture laboratory in Orlando, Florida, are now sterilizing the housefly in laboratory experiments and even in some field trials, using chemicals incorporated in suitable foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Monotonous to the extreme, DNA seemed to be quite the opposite of Schrödinger’s imagined chemical—not just a stupid molecule but worse: a boring one. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s flavor created from chemicals in a laboratory. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She lapsed back upon the few remaining remnants of chemical mist. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was a deep Indian brown but his hands were bleached and wrinkled from the chemicals in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Some of them feebly control useful chemical reactions, as enzymes do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, the chemical had been changed to the even more toxic aldrin, 100 to 300 times as toxic as DDT in tests on quail. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the space suits have to be portable, so they use a simple chemical absorption process with expendable filters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By a process of genetic selection, the insects are developing strains resistant to chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They put cells in culture dishes and expose them to radiation, drugs, cosmetics, viruses, household chemicals, and biological weapons, and then study their responses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Logs burned day and night in fireplaces despite the oppressive heat, and gunpowder and other noxious chemicals were tossed in frequently. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Griffith’s identification of a chemical capable of carrying hereditary instructions between organisms—the “gene molecule”—would have sparked a thousand speculations and restructured the chemical theory of life. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Inquiry into the background of some of these men reveals that their entire research program is supported by the chemical industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Also, she was bright enough to understand and accurately type his complex chemical and genetic ruminations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In view of the scientific evidence of the vast biological potency of this chemical, the action seems a minimum safety measure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The irony of this all-out chemical assault on roadsides and utility rights-of-way is twofold. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “But it’s not clean. The chemicals are poisonous.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The alleged “safety” of malathion rests on rather precarious ground, although — as often happens — this was not discovered until the chemical had been in use for several years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Redness,” the physical trait, in contrast, was the consequence of a chemical pigment in the eye. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Mams had asked her to perform a chemical experiment that had to do with the decomposition of organic materials. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Such studies will no doubt be directed largely toward measuring the effects of radiation, but it must not be overlooked that many chemicals are the partners of radiation, producing precisely the same effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were chemical hand-and footwarmers: thin pads—you broke the seal and they heated up to a little above body temperature and stayed that way for hours. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Honey, I got more chemicals in me than a bottle of dishwashing liquid.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The commercial product usually contains combinations of several chemicals, suspended in a petroleum distillate plus some dispersing agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But we may easily be doing so now by inadvertence, for many chemicals, like radiation, bring about gene mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the few circumstances that save us from extinction by this means is the fact that parathion and other chemicals of this 0 group are decomposed rather rapidly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But no such humility marks the booming “weed killer” business of the present day, in which soaring sales and expanding uses mark the production of plant-killing chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The caustic chemicals of fear continued to surge in their brains and in their guts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Combinations of chemicals seem to do more harm than separate applications. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been applied a dozen years before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is no longer possible to stockpile materials well in advance; what today may be the most promising of insecticidal chemicals may be the dismal failure of tomorrow. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Life had arisen almost immediately after the origin of the Earth, which suggests that life may be an inevitable chemical process on an Earth-like planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is widely believed that since so many people came into extremely intimate contact with DDT and suffered no immediate ill effects the chemical must certainly be innocent of harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Landau starts talking about chemical compounds and genetic differences, and everyone is bouncing in their seats. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A truly extraordinary variety of alternatives to the chemical control of insects is available. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whatever chemical laces the fog does more than burn—it targets our nerves. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z |
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