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Valuable as liquid hydrogen is in the lab, though, the men who use it can never forget its dangerous characteristics. The trouble is, it really does not want to be a liquid. Forced into a fluid state by powerful refrigeration machines, it must be sealed in a double-walled vacuum container and kept constantly below its boiling point (-423° F.) to control vaporization. As a liquid, it is not readily flammable. It is when it vaporizes and comes in contact with oxygen that hydrogen becomes explosive. Which makes for a vicious problem: how to let off the inevitable vapors...
...master's mannerist mystery of depth, stage lighting and evanescent flesh tones, had been attributed to a copyist. Titian's Toilet was supposedly by his son Orazio, although the supple shoulder line and illusory intermingling of the young woman's ripply tresses with her fluid sleeve reveals the artist's lustrous trademark...
...Faculty committee's approval. Mayer and company promoted the idea that the committee's self-perpetuating status, although unfortunate, was a necessary student concession to balance the grant of power they were to receive. But it was actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...
...Specimen. Dr. Edwin A. Taylor of La Jolla diagnoses the knobs differently. He noted that in the early stages the knobs were movable and had a little bounce, so he expected them to be filled with fluid that could be drawn off to hasten recovery. When he cut into the knobs, though, he found cords of pearly white material, and he was afraid that he might have hit a misplaced tendon or nerve. Eventually, he decided that the white strands were an overgrowth of connective tissue, the deeper, fibrous layer between skin and bone. This might be more serious than...
...periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...