Word: nitrogenating
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...More than just a sperm bank, it is a repository of fibroblast cells taken from the connective tissue of hundreds of exotic wild animals, ranging from Sumatran tigers to Uganda's pygmy chimps. These cells, which are easier to store and grow than most, are kept in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of -196° C ( - 320° F) against the day when technology will be ready to reawaken them. Says San Diego's Benirschke: "We could probably get along all right without the rhino, and we're doing all right without the dodo...
Nitrous oxides: What everybody is fighting about. Actually nitrogen dioxide, a brownish gas that causes respiratory irritation and disease when present at unsafe levels. Said to be particularly harmful to asthmatics and the very young and very old. People disagree about how much is unhealthy...
...spots: Particularly heavily trafficked areas, such as the Allston toll booth on the Massachusetts Turnpike and the entrance to the Callahan tunnel, which normally display a high level of nitrogen dioxide. Said to be a deadly mixture when combined with the nitrogen dioxide spewed from the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...
Nitrous oxides: What everybody is fighting about. Actually nitrogen dioxide, a brownish gas that causes respiratory irritation and disease when present at unsafe levels. Said to be particularly harmful to asthmatics and the very young and very old. People disagree about how much is unhealthy...
...spots: Particularly heavily trafficked areas, such as the Allston toll booth on the Massachusetts Turnpike and the entrance to the Callahan tunnel, which normally display a high level of nitrogen dioxide. Said to be a deadly mixture when combined with the nitrogen dioxide spewed from the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...