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...drunkenness known as nitrogen narcosis is a factor of diving physiology. The first stage is a mild anesthesia, a gaseous attack on the central nervous system. It destroys the instinct for life...
...rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact on mankind...
...setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
There are three ways of showing the spiral shape of our galaxy: 1) By tracing the gaseous emissions of blue-white "super giant" stars (10,000 time as bright as the sun) 2) By tracing clouds of hydrogen gasses that tend to follow the spiral arms and 3) By tracing cosmic dust...
...apparatus, however, can record the energy released by invisible radiation from the neutral hydrogen atom when its single electron does a "flip flop" (reverses its spin). By calculations astronomers can then place the gaseous clouds in their proper position in space...