Word: oxygenate
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...fire only smoldered for lack of oxygen, but it did trigger fire alarms after the burglars had fled, revealing that they had got away with a record $4 million in virtually untraceable bills. In view of the immense fortune the thieves left behind, that sum, weighing perhaps 700 lbs., was presumably all they could conveniently carry...
...hysterotomy is a method of abortion similar in technique to Caesarean section. In the hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...
...under ordinary circumstances. Thus they are building up in the lower atmosphere and gradually rising toward the ozone layer. At that altitude, ultraviolet radiation breaks down Freon and the other chlorine-based gases, causing the release of chlorine atoms. They in turn react with ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen...
These grim warnings closely follow reports by other scientists on the potentially disastrous effects of nitric oxides, which also strip ozone of its third atom and reduce it to ordinary oxygen. Large amounts of nitric oxides are given off by the exhausts of supersonic aircraft, and a recent M.I.T. study (TIME, Sept. 9) indicates that a fleet of 500 SSTs flying regularly in or near the ozone layer would deplete it by 12% within 25 years. In the past few months, scientists have been emphasizing the even greater menace of nuclear explosions, which generate huge amounts of nitric oxides...
...scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot had settled there in a small artery, leaving an area of dead tissue where no blood is circulated to take up oxygen. Then the doctors ran a second test to determine whether Nixon's respiratory passages were open to this area and thus rule out any other lung disease. For this, Nixon inhaled an aerosol containing radioactive technetium. This time the scanner showed no obstruction...