Word: nitrogenating
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...confused with the bends, though both result from too-rapid decompression. In the bends, the source of the trouble is nitrogen, which has been dissolved in the blood and fatty tissues under continued high pressure, then, with rapid decompression, comes out of solution faster than the blood can carry it to the lungs. The bubbles press against sensitive nerves, causing excruciating pain, and may cause death by interfering with the nerves that control breathing...
...more acoustic and pressure-sensing devices for feeling the pressure waves of a nuclear blast, more sensitive radio devices for detecting a shift in radio signals caused by 10,000-mile-high blasts, more instruments for spotting fluorescence caused when X rays from a nuclear explosion in space excite nitrogen in the ionosphere...
...tons, and each of its five cylindrical segments contains more rubbery propellant* than an entire Air Force Minuteman. While it burns for nearly two minutes, it gives 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, three times as much as that of an Atlas. It is steered by injections of liquid nitrogen tetroxide into the white hot gas stream through valves in the sides of the engine's nozzle...
...lives for long periods under increased air pressure and sally periodically into the water to explore, catch fish or perform scientific experiments. If they do not return to the low-pressure surface, they will not suffer from the divers' nightmare, "the bends," which is caused by bubbles of nitrogen released in the blood during decompression...
...Prospects. To bring these laboratory tricks much closer to commercial reality, the industry has developed new methods to store and ship liquid gases, which are constantly accompanied by the danger of evaporation or explosion. Linde and Air Products both have developed liquid-nitrogen tanks that keep food trucks cold even when doors are endlessly opened and closed. Linde is using nine miles of pipeline to pump oxygen and nitrogen along the Houston Ship Channel to Humble Oil, Sheffield Steel and other users; Air Reduction has opened a 22-mile nitrogen pipeline along the Delaware River to service such customers...