Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be present. It was a rather large gathering, 92 individuals by hypothetical count. He had them all assembled in the university's rare earths laboratory, and his procedure was to isolate them one by one, scrutinize them closely, and put them to one side positively identified as Oxygen, Gold, Barium, Chlorine, etc., etc.-old friends-or as Ytterbium, Lutecium, Praseodymium, etc., etc.-individuals that are rarely seen and have been introduced to science comparatively recently...
...Irvine and Mallory were equipped with oxygen tanks to allow them to breatho in the highly rarified atmosphere and these tanks were a trifle clumsy to handle...
Last month, Professors Hugh S. Taylor and A. L. Marshall found that by bombarding hydrogen atoms with atoms of mercury energized by light, the hydrogen became so active chemically that it would unite directly with oxygen at ordinary temperatures to form hydrogen peroxide, a substance of great industrial value (it disinfects, bleaches) hitherto difficult and costly of preparation...
Captain Noel was official photographer of the 1924 expedition. By the aid of telescopic lens his cameras took pictures of Mallory and his companion Irvine as they climbed up and up through the snow and ice over a mile away from the watchers. With oxygen tanks strapped to their backs, necessary because of the highly rarified atmosphere. Mallory and Irvine struggled on until they dwindled to black pinpoints in the camera's lens. At times blasts of snow and wind hid them completely from sight. Finally, 800 feet from the top, they were obscured by a stronger gust which lasted...
...transparent hand moved through the sign of the cross with effort. He was certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...