Srinivasan R

“Condemned men who agree to donate their organs for transplants may be executed by being given what is described as a non-toxic lethal injection of potassium chloride. This chemical kills, but, unlike poison gas or the electric chair, it leaves all the organs undamaged. The”
― John Emsley, Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

“you cannot kill yourself by taking a large dose of sodium chloride (it will only make you vomit) or by injecting a solution of it. On the other hand, if you injected a solution of potassium chloride it will kill you within minutes by upsetting the rhythm of your heart.”
― John Emsley, Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

“Fairly and rather both mean somewhat, but fairly is used when we wish to express a pleasant or desirable idea, and rather when we wish to express an unpleasant or undesirable idea,”
― Terry O'Brien, Little Red Book of Common Errors

“Coca-Cola is just a concoction of chemicals; garlic wards off heart disease and cancer; an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. None of these statements is true, but they contain a germ of truth.”
― John Emsley, Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life