Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tests showed that the temperature, if unchecked, could soar as high as 1,000° and cause the electrical insulating material to flake off. The arcing that results can ignite the insulation. Heat from the fire expands the compressed semiliquid oxygen, and its pressure eventually increases enough to burst the tank. The safety switches were apparently damaged when the heater was used during a test before the launch...
...uncomfortably high. It is also possible that the U.S. economy could get itself into a "stop-go" cycle such as Britain suffered through for many years. Washington would apply brakes to the economy, release them when a recession threatened, find that the business revival had set off a new burst of inflation, and slam on the brakes again...
...other hand, a savage dance of chanted resistance to death−to say nothing of Viet Nam and polluted air−burst with demonic energy. For Terminal reverses the adage to read: In the midst of death, we are in life...
Therapy Workshop. Many of Orton's jokes are the kind told in mixed company only after several drinks. But the man had a machine-gun wit that he leveled on pomposities, pretensions and do-good liberal cant of any kind. Sample burst of fire: Mrs. Prentice: "What's Miss Barclay doing in the therapy workshop?" Dr. Prentice: "She's making white tar babies for sale in color-prejudice trouble spots...
...either in a fan used to stir supercooled oxygen in the tank, or in wiring leading to the fan. In the presence of pure oxygen, the short could have ignited insulation, wires, or even the aluminum parts within the tank. The resulting heat would have produced the pressure that burst the tank. Though NASA may never learn the exact cause of the accident, it has ordered numerous small design changes to prevent any recurrence of an oxygen-tank explosion; the fan will be removed, wiring will be changed and aluminum structures inside the tank may be replaced...