Word: oxygenate
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...Mildred J. Corballis, who for years had made a specialty out of serving dessert in the Union, died Sunday night of a heart attack in the Cambridge City Hospital. A Union employee since 1947, Mrs. Corballis had been in an oxygen tent for the preceding week, undergoing treatment for pneumonia...
...from the dawn of history until today. The second part took a leap into the future with Guided-Missile Expert Wernher von Braun putting on a sample flight to the moon and back with the complement of spaceships and space gear that must have had Captain Video gnawing his oxygen tube with envy...
...cloud were made entirely of hydrogen; there was nothing else to be made of. As nuclear reactions took place inside them, they turned partly into helium by fusion processes similar to those that generate the energy of hydrogen bombs. They also cooked up middleweight elements such as carbon and oxygen...
Gamboling Algae. As marimos lie on the bottom of Lake Akan (or of an aquarium in a Japanese gentleman's home), they exhale oxygen which collects as small bubbles entangled in their fur. When enough gas has accumulated, the marimo rises to the surface. It breaks the water with a gentle plop and rolls around languidly until most of the gas has escaped. Then it sinks to the bottom to collect more bubbles. This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining...
...several days coronary patients may be kept in an oxygen tent in an effort to reduce strain on the heart and avoid possible complications in the lungs. They also get Dicumarol or a similar anticoagulant which reduces the danger of extension of the thrombus and formation of circulation-blocking clots...