Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without cracking. The increasing complexity of astronavigation has fostered the development of swifter and smaller computers that find no end of applications on earth. The fuel cell used to supply electric power for Gemini spacecraft is being developed for commercial use, and its production of electricity from oxygen and hydrogen without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem that is increasing all over the world. Some scientists are already speculating about giant orbiting mirrors to light up a battlefield in Viet Nam or melt icebergs, free ice-locked harbors and shift storms from their natural courses. Weather...
...news, gasped Madrid's daily Pueblo, "has come like the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, like the alighting of 100,000 fiery angels." Or so it seemed to Spain's aficionados. The man who dropped the bomb, Bullfighter Manuel Benitez, 29, better known as El Cordobés, seemed unshakable in his decision. The night before, he explained, "I fell asleep, but suddenly at 3:20 in the morning I leaped out of bed ready to break the news. Providence told me to do this." So, after seven professional years that earned him some $7,000,000 plus...
...much as 50 times thinner than the earth's. It seemed almost certain that a relatively weak Martian gravity had allowed most of the planet's primitive atmosphere to leak off into space. There appeared to be practically no possibility that any of the lightest element, hydrogen, or its compounds, had remained long enough to play their essential role in the early evolution of life. Now it appears that such pessimism may have been unfounded. The newest studies of the Martian atmosphere indicate that it abounds in hydrogen compounds, some of which are similar to those produced...
...paper presented to an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Astrophysicist Lewis Kaplan disclosed that spectrograms of the Martian atmosphere, made when the planet was 70 million miles from the earth last year, suggest that Mars has a concentration of hydrogen compounds in its atmosphere 1,000 times greater than the earth's. Those compounds probably include methane derivatives and possibly methane itself-a finding that could be significant because methane, or "marsh gas,"* is produced on earth by anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to exist. Even if the Martian methane...
...Martian surface, the spectrograms were of such high quality that they revealed unexpected absorption lines which had been indistinguishable in spectrograms recorded by less sensitive instruments. After careful analysis, Kaplan concluded that many of the absorption lines could have been caused only by reflected sunlight passing through hydrogen compounds in the Martian atmosphere...