Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous tumors produced "softening of the tumors in all dogs . . . except one. . . . Following periods of softening and draining of clear fluid, the tumors as a rule . . . gradually disappeared." Especially elated were Scientists Strong & Whitney over the recovery of two eight-year-old bitches with advanced cancer of the breast, one a cocker spaniel, the other a Scottish terrier...
...Physical Review last week, Dr. Giauque published a report on the viscosity of liquid helium in the absolute zero region. Viscosity is "fluid friction" or degree of stickiness. Even pure water has some viscosity. But about 2° above absolute zero, liquid helium has so little stickiness that - as several cryogenic experimenters have found - "rather phenomenal surface films" will spread over any surface brought in contact with it. These films will, in fact, climb right out of the liquid and ascend to considerable heights against gravity...
...Giauque measured the capillary flow of liquid helium through a channel only one-ten-thousandth of one centimetre wide. He obtained such a low value for the viscosity at one degree above that he concluded there would be no fluid friction whatever at the utter cold of absolute zero...
...slush pits from the sand which had been tapped 13,000-odd ft. down. It was necessary to bail mud out of the pipe so that the gas pressure below could push up the oil. "We had swabbed 2,000 ft. of mud," said Superintendent Bell, "when suddenly the fluid rose 1,500 ft. in the hole. So we knew we had something. We swabbed a little more. Then it came naturally. For half an hour mud poured into the sumps, then turned to oil. I just stood there and looked...
...traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four or five days of exposure to infection...