Word: oxygenate
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...Consolidated boat was at 18,000 feet over the Atlantic and the oxygen was sobbing comfortably in the crew's masks. Then it happened. Somehow the automatic pilot jammed. With its right aileron all the way down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn, headed for the sea. In the dizzy spiral dive the aileron carried away, took part of the tip of the wing with it. Then the left aileron ripped off. An operator in the United Kingdom heard the frenetic chirp from the Catalina's radio: "Both ailerons gone...
...small quantities the pure metal was used for photographers' flashlights, for fireworks, for star shells, as a scavenger to remove oxygen from other metals while molten, in organic synthesis. In compounds it was used medicinally for milk of magnesia and Epsom salts. But today the fact that magnesium is only two-thirds as heavy as aluminum and less than one-fourth as heavy as steel has brought it into great demand. And from almost everything except green leaves chemists are now extracting the pure metal-some 24,000 tons this year in the U.S., twice last year...
...magnesium oxide, and the trick is first to vaporize this by heating it to 3,800° F. in the presence of carbon and then cool it to around 380° in 1/1000th of a second with a blast of cold gas. During the heating, the carbon takes the oxygen away from the magnesium, and during the cooling the magnesium is precipitated as a fine powder too fast to recombine with the oxygen. This is called the Hansgirg process, and RFC has financed a $9,250,000 plant at Los Altos, near Palo Alto, Calif., to make 15,000 tons...
...night rig," scoot down the pole, and be away with sirens screaming in 26 seconds. Every motion has been carefully studied to see where life-saving minutes can down. The rescue squad, with first aid equipment, goes out on all alarins. Sometimes it in called by doctors who need oxygen immediately for, heart cases; suiciden, drown longs and gas victims always rate the rescue truck manned by experts n accident work...
...first step in coalmaking, he suggests, was that bacteria, in the underwater depths of the moldering swamps, drew the oxygen they needed from the decaying vegetation. It is this lack of oxygen which makes coal burn (i.e., oxidize) with two and a half times as much heat as wood. The weight of the rock formations later performs the secondary operation of packing the de-oxydized vegetation into coal...