Quotes About Nitric

There was a smell of nitric oxides as the air itself started to burn in the beam of the laser torch, and a steady sizzling as the fiery knife sliced towards secrets that had been hidden since the birth of man.

Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth.

At 5:15 P.M. he shut the valves in the cabinet tubes. At about that moment Chief Radio Officer George Rogers lumbered ashore. No one would ever know exactly where he went or whom he met, but when he returned he carried two small bottles. One contained sulphuric acid; the other nitric acid.