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...Supercooled Blood," [Sept. 13] has Dr. Scholander considered the fact that the freezing point of liquids and solutions is affected by pressure, so that increasing pressures bring about a lowering of the freezing point of a liquid-solid system...
Last week an expedition led by Dr. Per F. Scholander of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution landed at Boothbay Harbor, Maine after spending eleven weeks around Hebron Fjord trying to find out what keeps the fish from freezing. Dr Scholander had a theory that their blood "supercooled," remaining liquid because ice crystals never get a chance to start forming in it. Ordinary water behaves in the same way if it is carefully chilled without stirring. The blood of the fish of course, is in constant motion through their hearts and vessels, so Dr. Scholander reasoned that the fish must have...
...Some ants are hopeless "alcoholics." Certain species of British ants keep caterpillars of the Lycaena butterfly in their underground nests, by caressing them obtain drops of ant-intoxicating liquid. In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world...
...drill grinds no metal against teeth or gum tissues. Instead, a liquid containing fine particles (usually of aluminum oxide) is forced against the tooth by ultrasonic vibrations (29,000 per sec.) of the Cavitron's tiny steel tip, and these particles neatly bore into the tooth without noise or pressure...
...disaster for Boeing. Under the law, United Aircraft & Transport had to split into three independent companies-United Air Lines, United Aircraft Corp.,† to make propellers, engines and planes, and Boeing Airplane Co. Says Allen: "We came out of it with less than $1,000,000 in liquid assets. We were still building the rest of an order for 136 P-26s for the Army, but that was it." Bill Boeing disgustedly sold out his interests and retired. Phil Johnson, who by then was head of the parent United Aircraft & Transport organization, was "exiled" from the industry after the Government...