Word: oxygenate
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...virtual monopoly of the world supply, the Board forestalled anti-Nazi criticism by explaining: 1) that U. S. stores are adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that for the 17,900,000 cu. ft. Germany will receive in 1938 there will be a formal quid pro quo-two naval observers will ride on each German Zeppelin using the gas, thus get valuable training in lighter-than-air navigation which the U. S., with...
...high altitudes oxygen deficiency is dangerous not only for physiological but for psychological reasons. Chronic effects of oxygen-want appear only in pilots, are never seen in casual passengers. "The point at which oxygen-want should be relieved in the pilot," declared Captain Armstrong, "is the subject of heated controversy. The average pilot thinks it is smart to go to a high altitude without oxygen. Oxygen-want is like alcohol. The worse off one is, the better he feels. It is regrettable that oxygen-want is not an extremely painful process...
...most important chemical equation in the world is the following: carbon dioxide plus water plus energy from sun equals sugar plus oxygen...
...some cells were injured by radiation, the life processes of uninjured cells were stimulated. The Cincinnati researchers radiated some yeast cells long enough to kill them all, then took the fluid containing the cell corpses, centrifuged and filtered it, added it to a suspension of normal cells. The "respiration" (oxygen intake) of these was observed to increase by 10%. It appeared that before they died the damaged cells secreted stimulating fluids which Dr. Sperti now calls "intercellular hormones...
Statistics generally show Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen to be the safest anesthetic we have...