Word: lox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could sing the old songs that used to thrill his friends but cannot be parodied on records because they are not in the public domain -big brassy Broadway tunes like 76 Sol Cohens and the entire score of South Passaic (Younger Than Springstein, There Is Nothing Like a Lox). Movie tunes too. Moon River becomes "Chopped liver, rolled up in a ball...
...tested at "Suzy," North American's test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, it is trucked to Leuhman Ridge in the Mojave Desert. There, the test stand towers 275 ft. above the rocky ground. Tucked in its steel skeleton are tanks for lox (liquid oxygen) and kerosene, while stairs, cables, and many-colored pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat, and a sound beyond description rolls across...
Moment's Notice. What makes Titan II unique is a storable fuel that requires no lox (liquid oxygen) and enables the missile to be ready to fire at a moment's notice. Lox, which is used in the Atlas and Titan I, is cheap and an efficient oxidizer, but its extreme cold ( - 297°F.) and its eagerness to boil away make it troublesome and unreliable. Instead of this chemical bad actor, Titan II uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) as fuel. Both are liquids that can be stored...
...fuels are "hypergolic." This fancy word, too newly coined to be included in most dictionaries, means that the two liquids start burning furiously as soon as they come in contact. No igniting system is needed, and this advantage eliminates a missile designer's nightmare. Kerosene and lox, the commonest missile fuels, do not ignite on contact; furthermore, if they do not burn promptly, they form a powerful explosive mixture that can blow a missile to shreds...
...Products & Chemicals Inc. of Trexlertown, Pa. is riding the crest of a liquid oxygen wave as the major supplier for missile engines, last year did 63% of its $49 million sales with the Government. The company became expert at handling the extremely cold LOX through its sales of small commercial on-site generators...