Word: hydrogenic
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...against measles. He was most successful, in fact, when he put his patients on diets of milk, vegetables and fruit and left them alone. His real love was inventing. On paper he devised a water closet, a diving bell, a canal lock, a horizontal windmill for grinding pigments, a hydrogen-oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar...
...eight engines, Saturn seemed to rise with unnatural slowness. During the first ten seconds it climbed less than twice its own length, then it quickly gathered speed and rumbled behind a low-flying cloud. At 48 miles' altitude, the massive first-stage booster shut off and separated. The hydrogen-burning second stage took over, and it burned perfectly for eight minutes. When it was 1,300 miles downrange and 375 miles north of Antigua Island, the triumphant announcement came: Saturn had reached orbiting speed. The new satellite weighs 38,000 Ibs., and 20,000 Ibs. of it is payload...
Saturn's second stage, built by Douglas Aircraft Co., is even more sophisticated because of its uncomfortable fuel, liquid hydrogen. Space engineers admire LH2 because it provides better than one-third more thrust than kerosene, but it is hell to handle. It is so light (7% the weight of water) that it requires enormous tanks, elaborately insulated to keep the hydrogen from flashing to vapor. A long list of new materials had to be developed that would not lose their strength at the chilling touch...
...Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The egghead President of the United States, one Mirkin Muffley, chirrups into the phone to the Soviet Premier: "Now, then, Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb? The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is that one of our base commanders did a silly thing. He, uh, went a little funny in the head. You know, funny. He ordered our planes to attack your country . . . Let me finish, Dimitri...
...cause of lung cancer is still unknown, but there is clinical evidence linking cancer with foreign matter in the respiratory system. Cilia are thin hairs that prevent such particles from lodging in the tract. The charcoal granules in the compartmentalised Lark filter adsorb such gases as hydrogen, cyanide, formaldehyde, acrolein, and ammonia, which interfere with this process...