Word: oxygen
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Athletes will try almost anything, it seems, to better their performances. The % boost of choice among some is blood doping, in which red blood cells are drawn off and reinjected a few days before a race. Since red cells carry muscle- fueling oxygen, an additional infusion should translate into greater energy, more endurance and improved times...
...loose volcanic ash and fine pumice pebbles, willows, red alder and an occasional Douglas fir have taken root near small ponds. At the waters' edge, Pacific tree frogs and salamanders now flourish. Large bodies of water like Spirit Lake, which was filled with organic debris and robbed of its oxygen by accompanying bacteria during the eruption, have made even more rapid recoveries. Algae, zooplankton and freshwater crustaceans have all recolonized the lake, prompting authorities from the state department of game to push for the restocking of such game fish as rainbow and brown trout...
...case of fire," she said, "oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling so you can scream into them for your last five seconds of life...
...more than half reach their early 20s, thanks to a battery of drugs that control lung infections, aid digestion and limit secretions. Still, few survive beyond the age of 30. House's lungs were "just about gone," according to his father, and for three years he had used an oxygen tank while he installed air- conditioning equipment...
Muller and his colleague, Johannes Georg Bednorz, tinkered with hundreds of different oxide compounds over the next few years, varying quantities and ingredients like alchemists in search of the philosopher's stone. Finally, in December 1985, they came across a compound of barium, lanthanum, copper and oxygen that seemed promising. When Bednorz tested the compound, he was startled to see signs of super-conductivity at an unprecedented 35 K, by far the highest temperature at which anyone had observed the phenomenon. Could this result be correct? Aware of some hastily made superconductivity claims that later could not be reproduced...