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Beyond Death. The danger zone, Luyet found, was around - 20° F. At that temperature, moisture in the experimental tissues freezes into ice crystals, rearranging each cell's molecular structure into a "thermodynamically stable configuration" -the scientists' fancy name for death. What the experimenters needed was a quick-freeze system that would jump through the "death stage" in a split second, turn their research tissues into a vitreous, glasslike state before internal liquid had a chance to crystallize...
...bounded on the rough side by "Huh," and on the smooth by slick patter ("Her voice was like _ a cello bowed up near the bridge"). All the objects of numbed horror are interchangeable, whether they are masked women wearing steel talons on their fingertips or vaporous robots created by "molecular integrators" out of the vagaries of spacetime...
...simulate these peculiar conditions, California scientists use a peculiar apparatus: a "molecular beam" developed by Physicist Franklin C. Hurlbut. First, all possible air is pumped from the stainless steel tube (which takes a week of pumping). At one end of the tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...
According to present plans, the money will be used here for medical, dental and public health studies. Columbia expects to use its share on work in nuclear, atomic and molecular physics while Yale will expend its finds for chemical and medical sciences...
Columbia designated the bulk of her share of the trust to work in Nuclear, Atomic, and Molecular Physics, with some of the money supporting research in Biochemistry and Engineering. Yale's gift goes toward furthering studies in Microbiology. As at Harvard, most of her share was marked for the use of her Medical Department...