Word: nitrogenating
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...sleepy Morón crawled with the activity of 3,000 men. The first natural gas was arriving through a 24-in. pipe from eastern Venezuela. With $60 million spent, construction was well along on the cracking and fractioning units that will turn the hydrogen in gas and the nitrogen in air into ammonia, the basic component of fertilizer. The chlorine-caustic-soda plant was nearly finished, will start trial production this month. Aluminum-hatted straw bosses supervised the building of a city on a leveled area big enough to house 100,000 people eventually...
Called Hilac (heavy ion linear accelerator), the Berkeley machine is 112 ft. long and about 10 ft. in diameter. Instead of hurling protons, deuterons and other light bits of atomic chaff, it uses as its projectiles such comparatively heavy elements as nitrogen (atomic weight 14) and neon (atomic weight 20), which have effects that are different from those of smaller projectiles...
...surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
...Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just short of his 74th birthday, he died...
...cannot kill any kind of germ. To use the customary chemical methods on penicillin, says Dr. Sheehan, "would be like attempting to repair a fine watch with a blacksmith's sledge and anvil." The critical problem was to find a way to bond a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom to form a chemical ring in the heart of the molecule. Avoiding many standard reagents as too violent, and keeping his solutions at room temperature or lower, Dr. Sheehan finally found a reagent that would...