Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eventually rank in importance with the finding that pernicious anemia is caused in part by an iron deficiency in red blood cells, which can be corrected by liver extract. Perhaps a cure for leukemia may be found in some substance not yet discovered that will enable white cells to absorb more zinc...
...bomb-tamers of Los Alamos had a ticklish assignment: to make their bomb explode, but gently, in slow motion. How they solved the problem has not been fully explained. Uranium piles are kept from reacting too fast by inserting cadmium rods into the graphite. The rods absorb neutrons and check the action. The more cadmium, the slower the pile percolates. Some similar method may be controlling the tame plutonium...
Trial Dip. The cramped (141 cubic foot) space inside the steel-shelled coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will...
These, he explained, reflect heat waves upward like a Turkish bath. Living things, however, such as trees, grass, and well-filled strapless bathing suits absorb the sun's rays, and proximity to them makes for a cooling effect...
...Chairman George M. Humphrey, who had helped negotiate the wage contract, told Senator Robert A. Taft's Joint Committee on the Economic Report that the rises might prove temporary. He promised to reduce prices by Aug. 15 if costs rose less than 73? a ton, absorb the difference if they rose more. Pittsburgh Consolidation's first-quarter earnings-up some 40% over the same period last year-provided an ample cushion...