In 1882 a man was admitted to Guy's Hospital, London, after he had taken half of a sixpenny pot of phosphorous paste in whiskey, and was subsequently discharged completely recovered.
Sonnenschein refers to a case of an infant of five weeks who died from the effects of one phosphorous match head containing only 1/100 grain of phosphorus.
In order to come into the possession of a large inheritance the murderess poisoned the boy by introducing the ends of some phosphorous matches into his rectum, causing death that night; there was intense inflammation of the rectum.
This affection was first noticed in 1838, soon after the introduction of the manufacture of phosphorous matches.
The important acids of phosphorus are the following: H{3}PO{3} phosphorous acid.
On experimenting upon this latter body with water, he obtained a crystallized substance which he proposed to call Hydro-phosphorous acid, since it consists of pure phosphorous acid and water.
It is necessary to observe, that the heat is so excessive, that if the piece of phosphorous in this experiment be larger than a small pea, there will be great danger of breaking the bottle.
Selenophene was prepared from sodium succinate and phosphorous triselenide, or by conducting ethylselenide through hot tubes(29).
One rumour was that they were an experiment in aerial gassing, and another that they were of some phosphorous compound.
There are also colourless phosphorous rockets that describe a wide parabola in their flight.
What was easier than for him to steam them carefully open in the seclusion of his cabin, mark them with the phosphorous oil, and then re-seal them?
Every single card was marked on the top right-hand corner on the back with a luminous substance, which I found out later was a patent preparation of phosphorous oil.
In the manufacture of Bessemer steel this is extracted by the use of lime which melts in the furnace, unites with the phosphorous and brings it away in the slag.
Daniels, Everett police officer, testified to a phosphorous fire which did no damage and was in no way connected with the I.
Food contaminated with white phosphorous should be destroyed.
Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.
It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric acid with one of phosphorous acid, by partial dehydration.
Hence we distinguish between sulphurous and sulphuric, and between phosphorous and phosphoric acids, &c.
TABLE of the Combinations of Phosphorous and Phosphoric Acids, with the Salifiable Bases, in the Order of Affinity.
Hence we have a phosphorous and a phosphoric acid, an acetous and an acetic acid; and so on, for others in similar circumstances.
The phosphorous acid is readily changed into phosphoric acid by exposure for a long time to the free air; it absorbs oxygen from the air, and becomes fully oxygenated.
Observations upon Phosphorous and Phosphoric Acids, and their Combinations.
Phosphorous is poison, and most dangerous stuff to handle, minute particles often getting under the nails and causing painful sores.
A second later Jack had emptied the phial of phosphorous over the wood, and the lurid light shone forth.
Jack kicked aside the phosphorous covered sticks and signaled to those holding the ends of the ropes to loosen them.
Profound analysis has discovered a yet more powerful cause: the presence of phosphorous in all the portions, and which decomposition soon developes.
It is difficult to explain how, having determined that the human body contained lime, sulphur, and phosphorous iron, and the other substances, all this CAN be renewed every ten years by bread and water.
The three chums saw at once that the effect was produced by a black cloak on which had been drawn the outlines of a skeleton in phosphorous paint.
The phosphorous pentafluoride rains out when the weather gets cold.
When he and Admiral Hill proposed the use of White Beaches 1 and 2, Admiral Turner firmly vetoed [the] proposal and told [Hill] to work on planning for a landing near Tinian Town.
He was promoted to brigadier general and assigned as assistant division commander of the 1st Marine Division for the Okinawa landings.
Later waves took them out, leaving 50 dead Japanese in the gunpits.
After the feint at Tinian Town, the division sailed north and lay offshore of the White Beaches through the day.
Their purpose was to burn off wooded areas that had previously resisted white phosphorous and thermite.
Does phosphorous ignite spontaneously when held in a warm hand?
But if a piece of dry phosphorous be sprinkled with powdered charcoal it will ignite, without the application of heat.
Finely dividedphosphorous and phosphorated hydrogen will take fire at a temperature of 60 deg.
Phosphorous will ignite when held in a warm hand, but it does not then produce spontaneous combustion, because it ignites through the agency of applied heat.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.
Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.
It exhales white fumes in the air, which have a garlic smell, appear luminous in the dark, and spontaneously condense into liquid phosphorous acid.
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