Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have chuckled with satisfaction. From all over the U. S. and Europe they came, thousands of chemists, to his favorite city, Philadelphia. They flocked to the meeting of the American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...
...years since 74 U. S. chemists journeyed into Pennsylvania to do reverence at the grave of Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, and to found there the American Chemical Society. Next week chemists from the world over will join their U. S. hosts at the Priestley grave, then go to Philadelphia for a Golden Jubilee convention of the Society in the engineering halls of the University of Pennsylvania...
...atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment. Lavoisier later worked out the modern theory that combustion ("fire") consists in the union of oxygen with another element, usually carbon-a discovery nearly as important as Newton's detection of gravity through the fall of an apple...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
...tonsils. The operator worked carefully. It was a simple operation. But the child hacked, coughed, gasped-inhaled seeping blood into her lungs. She died, suffocated. Dr. Morris Smith, at the operating table, snatched a hypodermic syringe loaded with adrenalin (potent cardiac stimulant), shot the drug into her heart. Oxygen was pumped down her throat. After eight minutes of death she breathed again. The heart worked. She lives...