Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the work of identification began. One corpse clutched a piece of metal in a blackened hand-it was presumed to be that of the plane's captain, William E. Coney of Miami, wartime pilot of the Navy's famed flying boat Mars and one of Eastern's best. Two other bodies were easily identified-a headless mother who still pressed her headless child against her breast. But in most cases the only sure identifying clue was to be found in dental work...
...eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger by every instinct, Baldwin kept trying to lift his 30 tons of hurtling, streamlined metal. Nothing happened...
...after studying the tracks of the raiders, Holder decided that the aver age party consisted of one adult Indian, one woman or adolescent and one small child. Such a primitive task force, he thinks, slips at night through a village or oil camp, picking up tools or bits of metal...
Chemically, ammonium nitrate is a salt, a combination of a base and an acid. But it is far from peaceful, as most other salts are. Instead of having a metal (e.g., sodium or iron) as the basic part of its molecule, it has an ammonium "radical" (one nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms) masquerading as a metal. Its acid part is also a radical: one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms (see chart...
Last week, the balsa was almost ready to sail. Named the Kon-Tiki after a Peruvian god, she is 40 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, built of buoyant balsa wood logs cut in the jungles of Ecuador. There is no metal in her; all parts are lashed together with ropes, as the ancient Peruvians...