Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solid v Liquid. Months before Khrushchev suggested his Cuba-for-Turkey swap, the Joint Chiefs had begun considering the phase-out of bases in Turkey, Italy, and in England as well. The dismantling of the 60 Thor missiles in Britain is to begin this spring. More than compensating for their loss are eight Polaris subs operating out of Holy Loch, Scotland, each toting 16 missiles. To replace the 15 Jupiters in Turkey and the 30 in Italy, the U.S. plans to deploy possibly six subs in Mediterranean waters. Total firepower: 96 missiles, each with a nuclear-tipped warhead packing...
While the film is dry, the linked molecules remain quiescent, but after the picture is snapped, a pair of rollers in the camera breaks a pod of thick, alkaline liquid and spreads it evenly over the film. The liquid penetrates quickly through the layers, waking the linked molecules to active chemical life. They start moving, and most of them eventually touch a grain of silver halide in the nearest light-sensitive layer. If that grain has been exposed to light, it is ready for action. It grabs the developer end of the molecule, holds it tight, and uses...
Lyttleton figures that the earth's compressible liquid core, which can be studied by means of earthquake waves, has caused the earth to shrink about 400 miles in diameter. Some 20 million square miles of crust have been tucked away in mountainous folds and wrinkles. How long this process will continue, Lyttleton does not know. But mountains are still rising, and Lyttleton estimates that if the entire earth were to liquefy, it would lose another 50 miles of diameter...
...moon and Mars, Lyttleton calculates, are too small to have liquid cores, and this may be why neither of them has mountain ranges. But Venus is about the same size as the earth, is probably made of much the same material, and it may have a shrinking liquid core. As man's space probes continue to study the distant planet, they may discover that it has a pattern of wrinkled, earth-type mountains hidden under its cloud deck...
Active Oil. The yellow liquid has only a faintly oily smell to human nostrils, but what it does to male cockroaches is a sight to behold. Only a bit more than one-third of a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of an ounce wafted into their cage starts them running around madly, vibrating their wings and trying to mate with each other...