Four people were hospitalized Thursday afternoon after a package of carbolic acid spilled at a U.S. Postal Service center. Dallas Fire-Rescue hazmat crews responded to the incident about 12:30 p.m. at ...

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WITH reference to the note by Mr. J. H. Spalding contained in NATURE of June 13, I am reminded by my friend Mr. Rodwell that some five or six years ago I showed him the cohesion figure of carbolic ...

When bacteria are killed by carbolic acid or iodine, they stay dead; their tissues are destroyed by corrosive chemical action. But some modern soaps, though so bland that they are used for softening ...

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