Word: acidizing
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...launching rocket. The screen first showed a round metal canister containing the folded balloon as it separated from the rocket nose and sailed smoothly ahead. Then the canister split in two halves; the released balloon began to inflate, its folded segments billowing outward as 52 lbs. of powdered benzoic acid in its interior turned to gas. At first the balloon formed an irregular watermelon shape, sunlight glittering on its irregular surfaces. Then the skin tightened into a polished sphere...
Relax and Enjoy. Studious and methodical, Rollins set out to learn the pro game by the numbers, jotting down everything-tips from players and coaches, comments on opposing pitchers, acid reminders of his weaknesses. Fellow players considered him something of a grind; he smoked a pipe, drank only beer, rarely went to the movies, read history books. But in his first year, he batted .341 in the minors, and last year he clipped off .294 in 13 games, after being called up to the parent club...
Reese's cartoons are a mixture of ink and acid. "You live your life sentence, I'll live mine," one Reese convict growls at another over mess-hall coffee. Says a guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking...
...temperature-saturates them to varying degrees, Procter & Gamble Co. has spent millions of dollars on research and on revamping its manufacturing process to bring out the new Crisco, only 25% saturated, 44% to 50% neutral monounsaturated, and the rest polyunsaturated. New Crisco, says P. & G., has double the linoleic acid of the old formula and of competing brands as well. General Mills, Inc. is marketing a safflower cooking oil named "Saff-o-life" which, its ads say, is "38% higher in polyunsaturates than any leading oil, even corn...
...along the molecular chain, as mono-unsaturated if hydrogen atoms are missing at one point in the chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported seed for use in dyes. Today, hundreds of thousands of acres in California, Arizona and Utah grow the thistlelike...