Word: oxygenate
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Blood is full of a number of things. There are the red cells, which contain oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and are used in transfusions for anemia.There are white cells, which rush to defend the system against bacterial invasion. There are the little-understood platelets, which help in clotting. Besides these solids, there is the amber fluid (plasma), which contains a score or more different components, some already being used in medicine, others still in the research stage. To separate these various fractions, preserve them and make them available for medical use is a vastly complex process...
...Meduna method, the patient gets a mixture of 70% oxygen and 30% carbon dioxide† through an ordinary anesthetic mask. After a dozen whiffs (on the average), the patient loses consciousness. He usually sweats and begins to struggle...
...Composition of ordinary air by volume: 78.03% nitrogen, 20.98% oxygen, .94% argon, .03% carbon dioxide, .02% other gases...
...earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...
...like a simple mound of concrete in Mrs. MacDonald's backyard (see cut), the roof was steel-reinforced and 32 inches thick. Inside, the shelter was 8 by 4 by 6 ft., had six-inch walls and floors of waterproof concrete, was equipped with a food storage locker, oxygen tanks, electric lights. The underground entrance had a 30-inch, lead-lined door fitted with a oneway safety valve to equalize the interior air pressure after a bomb blast...