Word: liquid
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...page fantasy of Tara, who dreams of being restrained for an entire night by a man performing acts that produce intense pain, require plastic sheets and extra-absorbent , diapers and include an invasive medical procedure usually confined to a hospital and the intake of a gallon of ice-cold liquid. Hannah's imagination, to take another example, embraces one horse, one dog, two women, four men, one bottle and two electrical appliances...
Tetsoro Fujiwara, a Japanese researcher, began surfactant replacement therapy in infants, the results of which were reported in 1980. Fujiwara was able to achieve success in this therapy through the use of calf-lung surfactant administered as a liquid into the trachea...
Part of the success of surfactant therapy has been the efficiency of liquid administration, says Avery. With infusion down the trachea, 20 times the amount of the substance reaches the lungs as compared with aerosol treatment, which was previously the standard method of administration of pulmonary drugs...
...hover around 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, and the pressure of its atmosphere, thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, is some 90 times that of Earth's. Lead would flow like water on Venus, and water cannot have existed in liquid form for perhaps a billion years...
...Gennes, 58, was honored for describing similarities in the behavior of molecules in a number of solids, ranging from superconductors to the liquid crystals used in pocket calculators and wristwatch displays...