Word: nitrogenating
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...disadvantages of war" and grievously hurt the German economy, but it was the campaign against specific industries which brought the temple down. The most effective attacks were the U.S. assaults against synthetic oil plants, which the Germans viewed as catastrophic and which profoundly affected synthetic rubber production, synthetic nitrogen and methanol (necessary for explosives). Attacks on railways and waterways were the decisive blow...
Trigger & Key. Nitrogen's atomic nucleus was the first to succumb to human attack. Bombarding with radioactive particles, Rutherford succeeded in changing a few nitrogen atoms into oxygen...
Peruvians, remembering that their new President is a spare-time poet, hoped that his political activity would show the same mixture of lyricism and practicality as his tribute to Peru's guano birds. They "leave a ... magic nitrogen fluid ... a concentrated essence of a longing for the sky, which . . . liberates the roots from the prison of the furrow, animates the stem, lifts the branches and raises flowers into the air-and makes the petal wings tremble like a little bird avid for space and freedom...
...Paris last week a trembling, white-haired old man stood before the bar of justice. Georges Claude, 74, world-famed inventor, has sometimes been called the ''Edison of France." He invented neon lights, was a pioneer in the liquefaction of rare gases, the extraction of atmospheric nitrogen, the synthesis of ammonia. The charge against him : collaboration with the Germans...
During the Nazi occupation, Claude traveled around France, lecturing, at his own expense, on the benefits of National Socialism. He demanded that Vichy take stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...