Word: nitrogenating
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...stuff that came whooshing up out of the newly drilled well was-believe it or not-pure nitrogen. It may be, reports Nebraska Geologist Harold J. Cook in Science, the first nitrogen well ever struck. Drillers were hunting water on an eastern Wyoming ranch when, at a depth of only 156 ft., gas whistled...
...less than 78.03% of the air is nitrogen-which is used as a constituent of many explosives and fertilizers-but a well yielding undiluted nitrogen may prove useful. This one has been capped until its uses can be explored...
...welded product is strongest at its welds. Reason: as the high-grade steel in the melting electrode is deposited, it is protected-as the mill-rolled steel which is being welded was not protected-from contamination by the air's oxygen and nitrogen. These are excluded by another gas formed by the electrode's coating (paper pulp and sodium silicate), which shields the melting metal from...
...sunspots poured streams of subatomic electrical particles earthward. Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm. Some consequences...
...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...