Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the help of science, the dream has at last become reality. Across the land, flyers were making rain by simply dropping 100-lb. loads of pulverized dry ice (solidified carbon dioxide) into cumulus clouds, thus precipitating ice crystals which turn into rain. This week, sweltering Chicago got an 8-to-18 degree break in a heat wave just when a plane hired by the Herald-American brought man-made rain. The Herald-American, of course, claimed the credit. For days previously, others had been doing...
...Matilda M. Brooks, a University of California physiologist, discovered in 1932 that the drug known as methylene blue counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave...
Trial Dip. The cramped (141 cubic foot) space inside the steel-shelled coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will...
...they must be rushed to their destinations by air and used at once, before their radioactivity has been frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign countries...
...Baby Joe." Catholic nuns in black and starched white waited at rough, wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp (carbon dioxide) which had rolled out of old side entries opened by the blast. But it was worse farther on. Crews working near the blast had been burned, riddled with flying coal, and squeezed by concussion until their chests caved in and their tongues protruded...