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...talked about going to bed together. At play's end, the husband is asking his wife, "That's the truth . . . isn't it?" She smiles a Mona Lisa smile. The truth, Pinter seems to say, is chemically unstable, shifting from person to person like solid-to-liquid-to-gas, and hence unknowable in any absolute state...
White-Hot Metal. The most striking Middletown project is SNAP-50, a lightweight nuclear-power reactor designed to operate in space. Incorporating technical know-how gained on the airplane-engine project, this SNAP (for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) contains liquid lithium and gaseous potassium, tricky fluids that would drive most engine designers to seek liquid solace. Molten lithium is frightening stuff; it corrodes almost anything, and bursts into flame on contact with oxygen. Gaseous potassium, while not quite so bad, is hot and explosive...
...liquid lithium flows through the hot reactor core and emerges at 2,000° F. The tubes that carry it, made of zirconium-columbium alloy, run at near white heat. The lithium is piped through a heat exchanger and turns liquid potassium (boiling point, 1,400° F.) to high-pressure gas that runs a turbine producing 300 kw. to 1,000 kw. of electricity. The potassium gas goes to a wide, flat condenser to be turned back into a liquid (see diagram...
Britain's schoolchildren grapple for years with three different and conflicting methods of measuring weight (avoirdupois, troy and apothecaries' table), three ways of measuring length (linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half...
Cora had advertised that her treatment was painless, but a beauty shop operator from Columbus testified: "She put some liquid on my face, and it was just like liquid fire." Though no one testified to actual injury from Cora's treatment, doctors said in court that since it peels off the top layer of skin by a slow burn, the phenol formula would definitely do damage; it might also injure the kidneys...