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...radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
...avoid the bends (caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood), high-altitude flyers during the war usually breathed pure oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen and helium, for an hour or more before taking off. But they suffered no ill effects because they breathed it at ground level atmospheric pressure...
...pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening tire; nitrogen bottles blew fuel from drums into the tank; Holland patted his crash helmet, pulled down his goggles and sped off. The merry-go-round went on. With only 100 miles to go, Lou Moore's two drivers were running...
Under ordinary conditions, the straining atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...
...director of the Havemayer lab at N.Y.U. from 1907 to 1912, and after World War I established the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, which led in the establishment of a new industry in this country...