Word: oxygenate
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...collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came home to England to die. Propped up in a massive Renaissance bed, his Italian mistress and an oxygen cylinder beside him, he rambled in & out of delirium...
...diving suits equipped with two oxygen tanks, submarine-type air cleansing devices, tubes for liquid food, the fukuryus could operate in deep water (most effectively at 50 feet), walk under water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from...
...blue baby is so-called because its lips and fingertips are constantly blue; its blood does not contain enough oxygen. A common cause is small or obstructed passages from the heart to the big pulmonary arteries that carry blood from heart to lungs. That is what Dr. Blalock thought he could...
...Patients all sit around in one big room and breathe chlo rine from individual tubes, regulating the strength by moving the tubes to &; from their faces. People with arthritis and sinus trouble take it strong (along with coughs, sneezes and watery eyes); people with asthma get it mixed with oxygen...
...Development of hydrogen peroxide as a high-powered fuel. Hydrogen peroxide, an unstable compound (H2O2), breaks down (into water-H20-and an atom of oxygen) with a large release of energy. The Germans used hydrogen peroxide in launching their V-1 and V-2 missiles, and were adapting it, with apparently promising results, to naval uses...