But the first syllable of that word is pronounced " amf, " not " amp "; another possibility is a shortening of ampul, a sealed container of a drug to be injected.
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The M-256 is a hand-held chemistry set that measures the air for chemical weapons; tiny glass ampuls are broken above litmus paper that changes color, depending on what chemical agents are in the air.
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Their work was a mix of brute strength and finesse, alternately requiring moving debris and manipulating small detection kits, which involved breaking open jelly-bean-sized ampuls or mixing fluids and collecting residue with cotton swabs.
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Earlier Tuesday, a construction worker found 40 thin ampuls with white powder scattered on the construction site and on the pavement close to the highway in the Osokorky village in the suburbs of Kiev, Ukraine's capital.
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Gogitidze, a nurse on the intensive care unit for newborns, cracks open the ampul, pours the liquid onto a teaspoon and prepares to administer it to one of her babies, a 3-month-old boy abandoned at the hospital a few days before by his impoverished family.
