Word: oxygenate
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...rocket that was fired last week weighs five tons empty and carries eight tons of fuel. The tanks for the alcohol and liquid oxygen which it burns hold 2,500 gallons, and occupy more than half of the total length...
After Kapitza's return to Russia in 1935, his most publicized accomplishment was a method of producing cheap liquid oxygen from the air for use in blast furnaces and brick kilns...
...gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...chamber is a steel cylinder made of half-inch galvanized plate. Three feet in diameter and five feet high, it looks like a fat hot-water tank with an escape hatch. In addition to one cramped geologist sitting on a cushioned, red-leather seat, the chamber carries emergency oxygen, communication equipment and testing apparatus. The cylinder will withstand the pressure at a depth of 100 feet. A two-ton lead block attached to the bottom provides stability and a safety factor: the block can be released by turning a handle inside the cell to send the chamber bobbing...
McCrary began his newspapering as a copy boy on the New York World-Telegram, kept secret the fact that he was a Yaleman. His only magazine experience: a period "during which I lived in an oxygen tent" on the old Literary Digest...