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Word: carbonization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When air is bubbled in, the cell heats up to 140° F. (about the temperature of household hot tap water). Helped by a catalyst, the methanol combines with oxygen, forming carbon dioxide and wa ter while releasing electrons. The 29-lb. cell produces 100 watts of power at 5 volts' pressure, and its efficiency is as high as 40% . An auto engine, by comparison, is doing well if it gets 15% efficiency out of its gasoline fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Electricity from Alcohol | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married to Khrushchev's top rocket man. And there is Dr. Kanashima, a Japanese physicist who happened to be at Peenemünde to observe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Kamikosmonaut | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...Carbon monoxide is a cumulative poison that has a strong affinity for the hemoglobin in the blood, putting it out of action and reducing the blood's power to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. "If you breathe 30 p.p.m. for eight hours," says Haagen-Smit, "5% of the oxygen capacity of your blood is taken away." Exposure to the highest concentrations found on the freeways knocks out the same amount of hemoglobin in one hour, and Haagen-Smit believes that 5% loss is too much, especially for car commuters with heart ailments, emphysema or other respiratory troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Monoxide Rides the Freeways | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...Filters Work. Nothing much can be done at present about carbon monoxide except to stay out of heavy traffic. Greater Los Angeles has almost no transportation except private cars. "No filters work against carbon monoxide," says Haagen-Smit, "and closing the windows may be dangerous." He reports that in one tightly closed test car with a faulty exhaust, the interior carbon monoxide jumped to 200 p.p.m. He hopes a little improvement will come next fall from new cars equipped with devices to reduce carbon monoxide in their exhausts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Monoxide Rides the Freeways | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...eager tailgaters who cause the many-car pile-ups for which the free ways are famous. "The way to get the biggest dose," says Haagen-Smit, "is to keep as close as one can to the car ahead of you. The fellow who does that gets the most carbon monoxide, also the most lead, oxides of nitrogen, carcinogens, everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Monoxide Rides the Freeways | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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