Word: oxygenate
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...years were too short for what he had to do. Only his huge energy obscured the truth about how long, and how seriously he had been ill. For years he fought off migraine headaches, ulcers, asthma and emphysema-the latter two so debilitating that he had to keep oxygen at his bedside. Cancer was also an old enemy and, as it turned out, the final one. When he died last week at 75, the disease had so ravaged Cushing's 6-ft. frame that he had wasted from a robust 200 Ibs. to a mere...
They order these matters better in the natural sciences. Chemistry would not have improved much since Lavoisier's youth if chemists were still loosely calling all combustible materials phlogiston. The word oxygen means what it means, and neither Humpty Dumpty nor Spiro Agnew can alter that. New things-or newly discovered things -need new names. When a new microorganism swims into the biologist's ken, he does not reach back into folklore and call it a "small dragon"; he quarries the lexicon of a very dead language and concocts, say, "staphylococcus," a word never known before on land...
...Smog. How could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
Mantell followed the object above the altitude which his aircraft could maintain, blacked out from lack of oxygen, and then crashed and died, Menzel said...
...home at Manshiet al Bakri, a waiting physician ordered an oxygen tent and summoned three specialists for consultation. The diagnosis: massive coronary thrombosis...