Word: carbonizing
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...candy, so goes a Wall Street analyst's version, was born when a General Foods Corp. chemist mixed a little "Kool-Aid technology" with carbon dioxide and came up with Pop Rocks. Crystalline in shape and so far available in three flavors (cherry, orange, grape), Pop Rocks are made of sugar, corn syrup, milk derivative and artificial coloring and flavoring. When the small crystals of candy are placed in the mouth, tiny chambers of trapped CO2 are activated by moisture. The result: a popping and crackling that delights the kids...
...money will soon enlarge our research in fields ranging from the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the development of human fetuses. Some day this foresight could save us all. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt back in 1939 read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...
...slot this fall for its 3½-year-old monthly magazine now called Weekend, an eclectic mix of investigative and lighthearted reports. Executive Producer Reuven Frank is casting for someone to share the increased work load with Writer-Reporter Lloyd Dobyns but otherwise plans no major changes. Says Frank: "Carbon copies don't work." One Weekend feature that will have to change when the show goes midweekly is the name. Says an executive who has survived a wave of demoralizing layoffs at NBC: "Knowing the way our company screws things up. they'll probably call it 59 Minutes...
Such mischievous effects have not escaped the attention of military authorities who in classified studies have noted that a cloud of carbon fibers could be used, for instance, to incapacitate electrical equipment over wide areas-as well as knock out enemy radar. Because some 350 tons of carbon fibers are now produced annually in the U.S. and abroad, the Carter Administration ordered that much of the NASA study be made public. It also directed several agencies under the auspices of the Department of Commerce to look into the matter further...
What worries scientists is that, in the future, burning of waste materials by manufacturers, fires caused by aircraft and auto accidents, and incineration of discarded products could sharply increase the amount of carbon fibers in the atmosphere, threatening electrical equipment...