Word: carbonizing
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Time Clock. Plastics contain tough carbon chains that are often 10.000 times longer than those found in ordinary molecules. Some scientists estimate that it may take a million years before microorganisms capable of attacking the man-made material can be produced in nature. Rather than wait, some chemists have infused plastics with chemical "time clocks": automatic decomposers. But there was no way of controlling the rate of decomposition, say weeks for cups, and years for auto taillights. Nor did manufacturers want a plastic that could disintegrate on the shelf or in a customer's hands...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...first time in long hours, the tired men in Mission Control breathed easier. But the astronauts did not. Houston soon noticed that carbon dioxide exhaled by the astronauts was building up to a dangerous level in the lunar module's atmosphere; lithium hydroxide air purifiers in Aquarius, designed to absorb the potentially lethal gas for only relatively short periods of time, were becoming saturated. The deactivated command module was equipped with more purifiers, but their canisters were not interchangeable with the LM's. Mission Control instructed the astronauts to lead a second hose into the command module and connect...
...explain its efforts on the pollution front, only to be faulted. It ran an ad in more than 100 U.S. newspapers claiming that "G.M.'s 1970 model cars, as equipped for California use, achieve reductions of more than 80% on hydrocarbons and reductions of more than 65% on carbon monoxide emissions compared with 1960 cars without such controls." When questioned about that by newsmen, John T. Middleton, commissioner of the National Air Pollution Control Administration, said: "General Motors' record for compliance with the Government's emission standards for carbon monoxide is poorer than that for other...
BOWDITCH: The reason we started in California is because most of the hydro-carbon problem in the nation is the chemical smog problem associated with Los Angeles. Los Angeles' part of that problem is tremendously greater than anywhere else in the country...