Word: oxygenate
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Photochemical oxidants, Johnson said, are formed by unburned gasoline reacting with oxygen and nitrogen in the air, often far from automobile exhausts...
...said that the delay during which the fetus (was allegedly deprived of oxygen after being separated from the uterine wall, presented "little damage to the mother and no danger to the fetus...
...fetus had for a brief period been alive, and had even breathed, and that this fetus was "viable" and could have survived on his own outside the woman who had requested the abortion. But, through the actions of Kenneth Edelin, this "male child" died of anoxia, or deprivation of oxygen to the body, during the period when the doctor stood watching the clock...
...Gary-which had the dubious distinction of having the dirtiest air of any U.S. city-to clean up its smoke. To do that, U.S. Steel pledged either to install antipollution equipment or replace all 53 of its open-hearth furnaces in the city with more efficient, less polluting basic oxygen furnaces by Dec. 31, 1973. When that date came, though the other U.S. Steel furnaces in Gary had been replaced, the ten open-hearth furnaces in Mill No. 4 were still in operation. So the company asked the state air-pollution control board, the city and the federal Environmental Protection...
...area where hypertension is particularly hazardous is the brain. High blood pressure can cause a rupture or blowout of an artery feeding the brain. When it does, part of the brain is deprived of its blood supply and thus its oxygen. The resulting damage is called a stroke. High blood pressure also forces the heart to work harder, for it must pump against increased resistance. The overworked organ may enlarge, demanding more oxygen than the system can provide; the chest pains of angina pectoris or even damage to irreplaceable heart muscle may soon follow. Or the enlarged heart...