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Ever since, Zarchin has been fascinated by the idea of getting drinking water from the frozen sea. The Bolshevik Revolution was raging when he heard the lecture, and Zarchin soon got institute support for his experiments to help the Red army. His apparatus, used in the salt marshes of Tashkent, was too expensive, but Zarchin remained certain that the project was practical. He kept it in mind when he was sentenced to five years in the Urals for slyly registering a magnesium-extracting process under the letters "LZLE" first letters of the Hebrew Phrase meaning, "For Zions sake I will...
Chemistry Lesson. A major drawback in the past to demineralizing water by freezing has been the cost. Zarchin's apparatus tries to beat this drawback by supplementing freezing with distillation by vapor compression. Sea water is pumped into a low-pressure chamber where a part of it is turned into vapor; part is frozen; the remainder passes off as a concentrated brine. The vapor is then slightly compressed. This process turns the vapor into pure water and also generates enough heat to melt the pure ice crystals...
...almost every turn. Already widely resented by reporters as troublesome interlopers (TIME, May 21), the TV cameras in unprecedented force imposed new hazards on the old art of covering a political convention. Sometimes the newsmen found themselves trapped in hotel corridors as the networks jockeyed their massive apparatus near the candidates' suites, often wielding it as a blockade against TV competitors. At least once, the blockade kept reporters out of a candidate's room, and cost them a story...
...hard rubber roller, then onto the newsprint. To start publishing, the Record spent less than $250,000 (including $140,000 for actual equipment) against an estimated $600,000, at least, for a paper using a conventional plant. (However, when circulation goes beyond 20,000 the cost of additional electronic apparatus for the new process begins making the old printing method more economical...
Through professional archaeological friends, the amateurs got their hearth dated by a new carbon 14 apparatus in the laboratory of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. at Houston. Last week Crook and Harris were celebrating the second and bigger climax: the charcoal had proved to be 37,000 years...