Word: oxygenate
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...pipes were several billion or trillion single-celled algae (Chlorella). Looking like grass-green soup, the algae were housed in tall columns faced with transparent plastic and brilliantly lit by a bank of fluorescent lamps. Parades of bubbles climbed up the columns-and it was those bubbles, enriched with oxygen by the algae, that McClure last week breathed for 26 hours before emerging hale and hearty...
Like Wet Hay. McClure's bubble-breathing experience was part of an experiment by the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle, which is seeking an oxygen sys| tem that will support human space travelers. Using live algae to recycle the precious oxygen in spaceships is a venerable idea, but it is far easier to accomplish in fiction than in fact. Many space-minded companies have added algologists to their staffs, but Boeing believes it is the first to keep a man alive for a full day on algal oxygen. The original air in McClure's tank would have become...
...Caesarean operation that a nurse had to stand by his side and put the in evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby to breathe. When the baby gasped its first, faint squawks, tough old Surgeon Seagrave's relief was as obvious as that of the softest...
...baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...
...Inside the tent they set up a stove and fed it with empty provision boxes and spare clothes soaked in used lubricants. Foot by foot a shaft sank down through the snow. After 30 hours of continuous work, it was 50 ft. deep, but still no sign of the oxygen cylinder...