Word: oxygenate
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...seized hold of me, there was a wrench as my oxygen tube snapped off (I had forgotten to undo it) and I shot out into the sky. The aeroplane disappeared...
Lately Sister Mary Jordan Carroll, Professor Fardon and others at the Institutum have been investigating the respiration of cells. From yeast and animal tissue cells they were able to extract an oxidizing agent, which they call biodin, and which stimulates oxygen consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention...
Constantly and voraciously, earthworms eat earth, dead leaves, decaying organic matter of all sorts. The waste material they throw off as worm casts is one of the richest of all plant foods. Moreover, worm tunnels-air the soil, helping the oxygen and nitrogen metabolism of plants. And the tunnels make fine watering tubes, facilitate rainfall storage. Darwin estimated that a healthy English acre ought to have about 2,500,000 worms, turning out 18 tons of casts a year...
...superiority of English over German air-strength to more effective gunnery, and to equipment more adequate to meet the physiological requirements of pilots flying at high altitudes. He suggests that the United States is in a position to profit by the experiences of English investigators in the field of oxygen equipment...
...lurid climax before extinction, there lived in the sea shallows a big mollusk, Inoceramus, with a shell width up to four feet. Inoceramus was not much different from modern oysters, made pearls the same way-surrounding a foreign irritant inside its shell with concentric layers of the calcium-carbon-oxygen compound called nacre...