Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waves to the Center. Dr. Copson explained that it is all done by freeze-drying. When a material that contains water is frozen and placed in a vacuum chamber, the ice crystals in it sublime, i.e., turn directly into water vapor without melting to water. Pharmaceutical manufacturers use freeze-drying to preserve sensitive drugs, but the process is difficult, and it had never been successfully adapted to low-cost materials like foods. Another difficulty is that a considerable amount of heat (heat of sublimation) is required to evaporate the ice crystals. This heat must reach the center of the material...
Raytheon gets around this problem by putting frozen foods in a vacuum chamber and shooting through them a powerful blast of ultrahigh-frequency radio energy. The waves agitate the molecules in the interior of the food and generate just enough heat to make the ice crystals turn directly into water vapor. If the job is handled properly, the food loses up to nine-tenths of its weight and turns into a brittle sort of substance while staying far below the freezing point. Chemical changes, which would damage flavor, cannot take place. Even unstable vitamins are preserved...
...Breaking Ice. In recognizing that "there is, beyond dispute, a military threat from Red China," Menzies put his finger on the basic reason for better Aussie-Japanese relations. When asked why Australia did not buy more Japanese manufactured goods to balance Japan's purchases of Australian wool (Japan is now Australia's second-best customer), he frankly pointed up the greatest difficulty in the way of making the rapprochement stick: "Our large export income cannot be neatly balanced, because we have great industries that we are encouraging." But the ice had been broken. In the Japanese Diet Menzies...
Suffolk was leading, 2-1, in the sixth, when Kent Hathaway blasted a basesloaded triple to move the Crimson in front to stay. The JV's added a final tally in the eighth to put the game on ice...
...irritated because the Boston Bruins kept them from taking the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs in four straight games, the Montreal Canadiens went into the fifth game in their home-town Forum with fists, sticks and shoulders flying By the time the last man had picked himself otf the ice, les Canadiens had won 5-1 earned the National Hockey League championship for the second straight year...