Word: oxygenate
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...Animals thrive long enough on the artificial blood a milky solution of fluorocarbons and industrial emulsifiers for natural blood to regenerate and take over the functions of carrying oxygen and nutritional elements to tissues in the body...
...fluorocarbons highly inert substances that have the ability to absorb extraordinarily large amounts of dissolved gases performing the oxygen carrying function of red blood cells...
...present, conventional engines must use rich fuel mixtures-with a relatively high ratio of gasoline to oxygen -that produce unsatisfactory levels of pollutant gases. In addition, the rapid cooling of the gas temperature in the cylinder leaves unburned fuel, which is also spewed out as a pollutant. Honda's power plant, ponderously called the "compound vortex controlled combustion engine," or CVCC, scrubs these problems by being built to operate on a much thinner fuel mixture, using a lower ratio of gas to oxygen. Moreover, the cooling process in the cylinder is slowed to assist combustion of the fuel...
There was good reason for the excitement. The orange hue indicated that the lunar material may have oxidized, or rusted. That, in turn, meant that it had probably been exposed to water or oxygen. The only likely source for such vapors on the arid, airless moon were volcanic vents in the lunar surface. Indeed, some scientists had suspected earlier that Shorty Crater (which resembles volcanic vents on earth) had been created volcanically rather than by the impact of a meteorite (which is how most of the moon's craters are believed to have been formed). As they await...
...precisely T-minus-2 min. 47 sec., the computer should have ordered pressurization of the liquid oxygen tanks in the Saturn 5's third-stage booster. But because two tiny electrical contacts in the computer's miniaturized circuitry did not touch, the signal was not given. That failure was noticed by an alert launch controller, who immediately threw a manual switch that started the necessary procedure. The computer, programmed only to check its own automatic signals, assumed that pressurization had not begun and stopped the countdown...