Word: liquidize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical Research, went to work on a sick Plymouth Rock hen. He took material from a tumor on the bird's breast, ground it ultrafine to smash the very cells, filtered the stuff through silica so that not even a broken cell could pass, and injected the liquid into healthy chickens. They soon developed cancers of the same type (sarcoma) as the original...
...more miles of speed is still being debated by the rocket experts. The official explanation, that its first stage climbed too steeply and so did not benefit fully from the speed of the earth's rotation, is not accepted by all. Another possibility is that some of the liquid fuel in the second-stage tanks failed to burn. A third theory is that the solid fuel in the third-stage rocket became chilled before firing and therefore did not give the expected amount of energy...
...expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more power (500,000 h.p.) at full speed than the carrier Forrestal...
...land. To offset the ferocious heat generated by the air's friction, the X-15's skin is made of Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure in the plane's interior. The pilot, who cannot breathe pure nitrogen, will have a private oxygen atmosphere inside his space suit...
...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...