Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead of action, GM provides misleading accounts of what it has accomplished," he said. "In its Annual Report... GM states that its 1970 cars, as equipped for California use, reduced hydro-carbon emissions by 80 per cent...
Finally, Jebbie begins to wax dramatic about the smell of death (carbon bisulfide). At that moment, something incredible happens: what appears to be a ten-foot-high black baby wakes up screaming in her crib. Actually she is Carolyn Y. Cardwell, from Robert Downey's Putney Swope, and probably is no more than five and a half feet tall. Bobby wants to eat her and Jebbie does not. The baby then screams, "Rats! rats! rats!" and the lights black out (except the cue was missed on Thursday). Jebbie is left weeping and asking "Why?" If the rats are simply anthropomorphic...
Plummer and Carson came upon their theory while studying an entirely different planet-Venus. To determine the possible composition of the yellowish white atmosphere of Venus they decided to experiment with a little-known, foul-smelling liquid called carbon suboxide (C3O2). As the physicists increased its temperature, the compound solidified and underwent a series of color changes from pale yellow to orange, reddish brown, purple and a shade approaching black. Although the yellow vaguely resembled the tint of Venusian clouds, the range of colors was far more suggestive of the surface of Mars, which undergoes still unexplained variations in shading...
Darkening Clouds. Could such a rare substance on earth be produced in quantity on Mars? Quite probably, say Plummer and Carson. The thin Martian atmosphere consists largely of carbon dioxide; it also contains a trace of carbon monoxide, which may be vented from Martian volcanoes. Under intense ultraviolet radiation from the sun, the two gases could combine into carbon-suboxide vapor. Indeed, the two scientists were able to simulate that very reaction in the laboratory. Their experiment also demonstrated that when the temperature is high enough, the vapor could solidify into a fine granular material, turn yellow and precipitate onto...
Most of GM's actual research goes toward devising "gadgets" to curb hydro-carbon and carbon-monoxide emissions on the company's internal combustion engine. Automotive experts have admitted that the internal combustion engine will always be a pollutant and will have to be replaced before the air can be cleaned. But GM and most of the other leading auto companies have committed themselves to it-understandably, since it's their current product. Only a very small part of their research budget has gone, to date, into developing alternative engines to replace...