Word: burn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are plenty of propellants that burn when brought in contact with water, e.g., metallic potassium, sodium, white phosphorus, various metallic hydrides. Some of these can be used in convenient liquid form. When such fuels hit water, they decompose it violently by uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...
...Charley Grays burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons; then find themselves at the end with no spiritual props to make life bearable. The question Author Marquand's book raises is: "Are the rewards of all your efforts worth the effort?" But Charley Gray himself may be too busy even to hear the issue stated. Like an aircraft pilot who has passed his own point of no return-the point on a long flight where it takes more gas to go back than to go on to his destination-Charley...
...brain, said Professor McCulloch, is made up of neurons (nerve cells) which are nothing more nor less than small electrical relays, each containing its own built-in power supply. The cells burn sugar to carbon dioxide and water, and use the energy produced to keep their outer surfaces electrically charged in relation to their interiors. The electrical tension (voltage) between the two parts is about seven-hundredths of a volt...
...easy enough," she cabled, "to say that the Greek war is an affair of daily raids in which armed bands . . . swoop down from the cracks and crevices of a mountain . . . to sack or burn villages and carry off able-bodied men and girls to forced service in their armies. But the imagination cannot picture the desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves behind it . . . Everywhere, the atmosphere was heavy with suspense. In such fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West have waited the descent of the Indians...
...Gimo picked up his military phone and got his Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill or be killed. Nothing less would save Nanking and Nationalist China from imminent fall...