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Book World; Words to Live By
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THE ENDANGERED ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
By David Grambs
Norton. 264 pp. $23
David Grambs, a writer who numbers lexicography among his
professional skills, aims in this entertaining and instructive book
to introduce the reader to neglected old words that lie, "forgotten
and unused, beneath the ever-changing cliffs of our growing
language." His idea isn't to provoke a chuckle over "the drollness
or quaintness of forgotten vocables," though he does accomplish
that, but to offer the reader "a kind of informative and
ever-diverting side-by-side volume to go ...
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Cyanide Generation During Preservation of Chlorinated Wastewater Effluent Samples for Total Cyanide Analysis
Magazine article from: Water Environment Research
; ...used to preserve wastewater samples for cyanide analysis. The effects of four approved...protocols on the results of the total cyanide analysis of effluents from four water...without pH adjustment generally gave total cyanide concentrations below the reporting limit...
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Giving cyanide the tree-tment: Jonathan Watt reports on a new concept for dealing with cyanide waste. (pumps & piping).(gold mining industry)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: World Mining Equipment
; ...Iron cyanide, WAD cyanide, and free cyanide (HCN). The latter is the toxic free...harmless when dissolved in water. WAD cyanide includes HCN and weak complexed metal-cyanides. Iron cyanide is composed of HCN, WAD, and nontoxic...
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Cyanide toxicity in the surgical intensive care unit: A case report
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon
; ...blood in certain clinical conditions. Cyanide toxicity is a known complication of sodium...Herein is reported a case of probable cyanide toxicity in an elderly trauma patient...the pitfalls of making the diagnosis of cyanide toxicity are discussed. HYPERTENSION...
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Cyanide Toxicity in Smoke Inhalation Victims - a Deadly but Treatable Poison.
PR Newswire
; ...fires had toxic blood concentrations of cyanide -- these victims died from breathing the smoke long before the fire killed them and cyanide poisoning can be treated," said Schnepp...smoke inhalation death is accepting that cyanide poisoning must be considered. "Contents...
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Cyanide special.
Magazine article from: Mining Journal
; ...bimonthly by The Mining Journal Ltd, has been devoted to the important topic of cyanide. (The term `cyanide' refers to one of three classifications of cyanide: total cyanide, weak acid dissociable cyanide and free cyanide.) In one of a...
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Modeling of natural cyanide attenuation in tailings impoundments`
Magazine article from: Minerals & Metallurgical Processing
; ...disposed of in a surface impoundment experience a loss of cyanide due to natural attenuation, which frequently reduces the cyanide concentration to very low levels. Quantifying cyanide losses in terms of impoundment geometry, local weather conditions...
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Efficient biodegradation of cyanide and ferrocyanide by Na-alginate beads immobilized with fungal cells of Trichoderma koningii.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Microbiology
; ...Introduction Large amounts of cyanide and metal cyanides released from natural and...have an ability of degrading cyanide and metal cyanides when applied in soil by producing...important enzymes: rhodanese and cyanide hydratase (Ezzi and Lynch...
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Electroplating of jewellery: Getting the best from Cyanide Copper. (Special Feature).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Finishing
; ...highlights to give a worn antique appearance. Cyanide copper electrolytes are suitable for depositing...which require special pre treatments. Cyanide copper deposits are essential over zinc...castings and pewter. Special features of cyanide copper solution are the excellent throwing...
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Initial Silver Cyanide Leach Results Positive at Sierra Mojada.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week
; ...pleased to announce very positive initial cyanide leach results from the silver mineralization...triplicate head grade analyses prior to cyanide leach analyses at a commercial laboratory...from the upper Southside zones. Overall cyanide leach solubility's were very high...
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Formation of Free Cyanide and Cyanogen Chloride from Chloramination of Publicly Owned Treatment Works Secondary Effluent: Laboratory Study with Model Compounds
Magazine article from: Water Environment Research
; ABSTRACT: The potential generation of cyanide species in wastewater upon chlorination...concentrations (approximately 5 to 25 g/L as cyanide) of cyanogen chloride (CNCl), a highly toxic cyanide species not measured in total or free cyanide...
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