Word: oxygenate
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...Wedger, chemist for the state police, and the other by college officials in charge of Dean H. J. Hughes '94 of the Engineering School, it is believed that the explesion in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last Friday afternoon was caused by the presence of oil in the oxygen tanks which were being filled at the time...
...From all the data whice we have-been able to collect to date in our in our investigation of the explosion, we believe that it was caused by oil in the oxygen tank. How this oil got there we are not yet certain. We shall continue investigating, placing all of our evidence at the disposal of Mr. Wedger, State chemist, and seeking to piece together our data with his in order to reach a reliable conclusion...
...work upon which Mr. Dunbar was engaged when the explosion occurred was not of an experimental nature, but consisted of pumping oxygen in the gaseous form from a balloon in a shed outside the building by means of a compressor with water-lubricated cylinders into a tank. It should be said that this is a standard process constantly carried on in commercial plants. How the oil which caused the explosion got into the tank in this particular case is the problem which we are making every effort to solve in cooperation with the State authorities...
...censorship of any species must of necessity be artificial--an oxygen-stimulant at best. The theatre, if it is to recover, must do so through itself, rather than through any extrinsic influences. And, after all, New York may grow disgusted with its iniquities. The Restoration period went through something of the same career, we believe. Familiarity is said to breed contempt...
...facts to be secured about the way in which the body adapts itself to a reduced supply of oxygen are expected to prove useful in the treatment of certain diseases of the heart and lungs in which strikingly similar conditions occur. The problem is also of interest to aviators, who frequently suffer from the effects of flying at high altitudes...