Word: oxygenate
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...breathing animals, including humans, have cytochrome systems (a gourd of three iron-containing enzymes related to hemoglobin) in their body cells. These systems provide the basic means by which all animals utilize oxygen in the tissue...
...found that high pressures of carbon monoxide will block the action of cytochrome, by combining with it and forming a combination compound which does not have the power to handle oxygen...
...human cytochrome can't function properly, and since no oxygen can then be utilized, there is no growth. When this happens, the human dies...
...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...
...long minutes later, Owens felt a movement in the heart. He took his hand away, slowly and tentatively. The heart kept on beating. He felt for the pulse. It was good. The man was alive again. Dr. Owens hurriedly sewed up the chest and rushed the patient to an oxygen tent...