Word: oxygenate
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...high altitude is so thin it offers little resistance. As the plane climbs higher, it flies faster, and its engines swallow more air through their gaping intakes. But the All finally must reach an altitude where the air is so thin that its engines cannot gather enough oxygen to keep them roaring healthily. Above this point the plane slows down despite the diminishing resistance. Most experts are convinced that the All's top speed is considerably above the 2,000 m.p.h. with which it is officially credited, and that it makes its best speed somewhere around...
...from what Dr. Goodwin called "showers of clots." Then, switching to an appropriate Mississippi Delta metaphor, he suggested that their effect is to silt up the channels through which the lungs' blood flows. One result, which should help physicians in diagnosing the disorder, is that the concentration of oxygen in the arterial blood goes down with exertion, and so does the level of carbon dioxide...
...nine years, the company has spent $600 million to modernize. It was the first to take the long-shot gamble to develop large-capacity oxygen steelmaking furnaces and to use computers to control them, now leads the industry in this most efficient of all steel-producing methods. The company's oxygen furnaces cook steel four times faster than the best open-hearth furnaces, thus reducing costs by up to $8 per ton. J. & L. also saves money by using computers to handle everything from customers' orders to inventory control. It operates the most highly mechanized coal mine...
...measles. He was most successful, in fact, when he put his patients on diets of milk, vegetables and fruit and left them alone. His real love was inventing. On paper he devised a water closet, a diving bell, a canal lock, a horizontal windmill for grinding pigments, a hydrogen-oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar regions...
...four center engines are immovable and canted outward to reduce the yawing effect if one of them should cut out. The four outer engines are on gimbals so they can be switched from side to side to give directional control. They get their kerosene and liquid oxygen fuel through flexible tubing, from nine tanks interconnected so that if one engine fails, the others will use its share of fuel and burn longer. Backing up the engines is an incredible array of pumps, valves, gas generators, high-pressure tanks and cables. Saturn SA-5 is as complicated as a crewless ocean...