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...craggy, angular inventions mirror the liquid inner life of the American spirit...
These are only a few of the myriad new uses; man also employs the gases to fire rockets, sterilize rooms, freeze ice cream and produce soda bubbles. Food processors use liquid hydrogen to stiffen oils into shortening through "hydrogenation." Steelmakers are taking big gulps of pure oxygen in their furnaces to speed melting. In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations...
...Linde, rings up $287 million yearly and leads in sales of oxygen. Air Reduction Co. (sales: $287 million) leads in gases for welding and in research on food freezing. The youngest, smallest and scrappiest of the big three is Air Products and Chemicals (sales: $100 million), which pioneered in liquid hydrogen and grew to its present size by building big air-separation plants right on the sites of their industrial users...
...hottest competition now is in the frontier science of cryogenics-Greek for "creation of icy cold." Working with chilled liquid gases, the three companies have found that materials behave in weird and wondrous ways in the icy world of low, low temperatures. By slowing the movement of electrons and thus reducing resistance to electricity to almost nothing, the extreme cold of liquid nitrogen, for example, gives an electric magnet four times or more the usual pull and makes a light bulb shine 20 times brighter. Linde has also found that whole blood and body tissues can be preserved indefinitely when...
...Prospects. To bring these laboratory tricks much closer to commercial reality, the industry has developed new methods to store and ship liquid gases, which are constantly accompanied by the danger of evaporation or explosion. Linde and Air Products both have developed liquid-nitrogen tanks that keep food trucks cold even when doors are endlessly opened and closed. Linde is using nine miles of pipeline to pump oxygen and nitrogen along the Houston Ship Channel to Humble Oil, Sheffield Steel and other users; Air Reduction has opened a 22-mile nitrogen pipeline along the Delaware River to service such customers...