Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steroid, one of a huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This is a fantastically...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...Your diagram of tactical nuclear weapons graphically illustrates the steps of escalation each side would inevitably be forced to take once the very smallest A-weapon had been used. As part of the same inexorable process, strategic weapons must follow until the "ultimate" (100-megaton?) bomb would be launched by the side still able to do it. This elementary fact must be brought home to those who still cannot grasp...
...from the explosion had slashed through the cornea (outer covering) of Jimmy's eye, through the dark-brown iris, through the lens and the gelatinous filler behind it, until it had come to rest just short of the retina, the screen at the back of the eyeball (see diagram). Repairing the cornea was routine. But find ing the object that had made the wound -and was still in the eyeball - was another matter. All standard techniques failed...
Each kidney contains a million filtration units called nephrons. Each nephron is made up of a tuft of microscopic blood vessels, called a glomerulus, and each of these has a minute tubule at tached (see diagram, right). When blood flows into the glomeruli and around the tubules, one-fifth of its water content is led aside for finer filtration. One hundredth part of this is extracted and passes eventually to the bladder...