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Lithium, lightest and most active of metals, has been put to work. Its new job: snatching oxygen from the atmosphere in furnaces for toughening steel gun parts, aircraft propeller blades, tiny altimeter gears and other tools...
...Most famous mascot in Chennault's China air force is a poodle, Major, born three months ago in a South American base. He now has 20 hours in P-40s (where he rides behind the pilot), knows how to breathe oxygen...
Fear, the psychologists say, is a good thing. "It is the body's preparation for action. The heart pounds faster, pumping blood . . . where its oxygen is needed. The lungs do their part by quickened breathing. Blood pressure goes up. Adrenalin, which is nature's own 'shot in the arm,' is poured into the blood stream. Sugar is released into the blood to act as fuel for the human fighting machine. . . . [The soldier's ] blood clots more readily. He loses temporarily the sense of fatigue even though he may have been dog tired...
Ordinary chemical reactions are totally inadequate to explain stellar energy. Even if the sun were composed entirely of coal (carbon) and the right amount of oxygen to burn it, the energy of that combustion could supply the sun's heat for a mere 2,500 years. Helmholtz' old theory that the energy comes from contraction of the sun's mass (in effect from the falling inward of all its matter) is also inadequate because it would explain only 30 million years of sunniness. Even radioactivity, the spontaneous disintegration of atoms such as uranium and radium, will...
...bubbled through a test tube, histamine and vitamin C react with each other, releasing ammonia (the amine part of histamine) and eliminating the irritating chemical. As circulating blood contains dissolved oxygen, Dr. Holmes thought it likely that the same reaction goes on in the body, decided to see what huge quantities of vitamin C would do toward taking hay-fever sufferers' extra histamine out of circulation, in order to relieve wheezing and sneezing...