Word: oxygenate
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Within the cockpit, heaters and oxygen bottles to preserve life on levels where no life exists naturally...
...worce than this is the almost total absence of ventilation in the Reading Room. The air is at all times atrociously foul. One is fairly stifled by the carbon dioxide, body odors, and lack of oxygen. It is only after some minutes that one is able to breathe in comfort; and then, almost before one realizes it, the CO2 has begun to act. It makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses...
Three throat operations, the last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...
Preparations were made for a 1924 expedition; elaborate and expensive equipment was collected, but the great question was whether or not oxygen should be used on the mountain for climbing. Norton and Somervell were opposed, and finally made the world's record ascent without oxygen tanks, reaching 28,200 feet. Mallory and Irvine next tried with the aid of oxygen to reach the summit. Through a rift in the clouds Odell saw them 600 feet from the summit, but beyond that we know nothing of these two unfortunate mountaineers...
...rubber billiard cushions, windshield strips, matting, packing, belting, hose, tires. The soft air sucks life just as surely, though more insidiously. At the chemical laboratories of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., a new product has been invented-neozone. Rubber treated with neozone resists the subtle deterioration caused by oxygen in the air, thus retains life longer...