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...oxygen process is now catching on so fast that it should oust open-hearth production as the U.S. norm by the end of next year. As a spectacle, the oxygen furnaces of such firms as Bethlehem, National, Republic and Kaiser out-inferno Dante. When a pipelike lance stabs the molten iron with a Mach 2 jet of high-pressure oxygen, the cauldrons burst into a maelstrom of 3,000° metal, boiling noxious smoke and spewing fireworks. The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead of six to ten hours...
...milliseconds every century as tidal drag on the earth caused by both the moon and sun gradually slows terrestrial rotation. The same records confirm that sudden changes in the rate of slowdown have occurred before, probably because of varying interaction between the earth's mantle and its molten core, or shifts in atmosphere circulation and ocean currents...
...University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, there is only one satisfactory answer. "Like a small star," he says, "Jupiter is still contracting somewhat under the force of its own gravity." As the planet contracts, Kuiper speculates, the compressed and solid hydrogen mantle that envelops its molten core occasionally cracks open, releasing the vast amounts of heat that brew Jupiter's mysterious storms...
...discovery indicates that the earth's environment three billion years ago was able to support the primitive organism and that the earth could not have been molten at the time...
...mariners puzzled over a molten glow in the eastern sky. Over the roar of the freeway, motorists heard the unmistakable crack of rifle fire, the chilling stutter of machine guns. Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement. From the air, whole sections of the sprawling city looked as if they had been blitzed...