Word: nitrogenating
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China's hunger pangs were described with sharp medical clarity recently by a British surgeon. The average Chinese diet was always so low in protein (nitrogen compounds in meat, fish, some vegetables) that the slightest disruption in supply might produce famine. The disruption brought about by the war has"'been enormous. In south Kwangtung last year, H. T. Laycock, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, doctored hundreds of Chinese who had been getting no protein at all. Wrote he to the British Medical Journal...
...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
...target. Since the energy required to dislodge them varies with the kind of atoms present, the loss of energy in the bombarding electrons after they pass through the substance indicates the nature of the atoms on hand. Thus a loss of 298 volts identifies carbon atoms; 400 volts, nitrogen atoms...
...pounds of meat a day. Besides his regular meals, he got amino acids (milk protein) intravenously, was fed a special soup made from ground meat, eggs and milk by stomach tube. One of the chief medical advances that emerged from the treatment was a method of measuring how much nitrogen a severely burned patient needs...