Word: nitrogenating
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...silo-filler's disease" if they go into a silo soon after it has been filled while fermentation is at its height. In the A.M.A. Journal, two Minneapolis doctors report that the disease, which may be fatal, results from damage to the lungs caused by inhaling oxides of nitrogen. The preventive: "Allow no one to enter a silo for any purpose from the time filling begins until seven to ten days after it is finished...
...warning (TIME, Aug. 6), against two widely publicized new "wonder" diets: the "Rockefeller" (low-protein) diet and the "fabulous formula" diet of corn oil, dextrose and evaporated milk. The A.M.A. Journal reports noted that both diets could drop the patient below the minimum protein requirement, thus upsetting the bodily nitrogen balance and leading to a variety of deficiency diseases. "Fortunately, few people will adhere to either of these diets for long . . . But there are compulsive dieters, just as there are compulsive drinkers . . . and in these subjects harm can be anticipated that . . . the ingenuity of the research scientists [cannot] correct...
...plainly no 'toy. Jimmy, a quiet, confident boy, is in the top eight of his class at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., holds one of the school's major scholarships. When Army experts tore down Jimmy's rocket−planned to be fired by combining liquid nitrogen, gasoline and liquid oxygen−they were amazed at his skill. "It's surprisingly close to several motors already developed,"said John Womble, deputy chief of Redstone's Rocket Development Laboratory. "We found the fundamental approach clever and admirable...
...have a crippling effect on farm workers. Farmer's lung is a reaction to grain dust, producing chills, nausea and shortness of breath. It has forced a number of Wisconsin farmers to give up farming. Silo filler's disease is potentially more dangerous. Caused by exposure to nitrogen dioxide from fresh silage, the ailment has killed several farm hands in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area...
...experts are not sure what the spaceship's atmosphere should be made of. Pure oxygen might be all right if its pressure were low enough (at atmospheric pressure, it is poisonous), but nitrogen also may be necessary for human health. In any case, the pressure in the spaceship should not be too low. If a meteor punctured the skin, a good thick atmosphere of oxygen diluted with nitrogen or helium would not be lost as quickly as a thin one of oxygen alone...