- PICRIC ACID HAZARDS (PDF) (oag.ca.gov)
Every couple months, an article appears in the local paper about a bomb disposal team removing picric acid that was found in a laboratory. The material is usually taken to be blown up. So why is picric acid considered so dangerous? Well, let’s look at the history of the use of Picric Acid and see what can be done to avoid those types of situations.
- Sententia (Wikipedia)
Sententiae, the nominative plural of the Latin word sententia, are brief moral sayings, such as proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, or apophthegms taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context. Sententia, the nominative singular, also called a “sentence”, is a kind of rhetorical proof. Through the invocation of a proverb, quotation, or witty turn of phrase during a presentation or conversation one may be able to gain the assent of the listener, who will hear a kind of non-logical, but agreed-upon truth in what one is saying. An example of this is the phrase “age is better with wine” playing off of the adage “wine is better with age”. The same saying is present in Luke 5,39.