Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painless gas which produces a fatal effect on the heart, of which the victim would have no knowledge before - or after - he dropped dead. There are gases which upset the digestive functions and prevent the taking of food. Other gases poison the blood and prevent it from carrying oxygen to the several parts of the body. Gases may be used which have a gradual effect, not noticed at first, or which-like mustard gas-seep into solid objects and infest a neighborhood for weeks...
...Professor Frederick G. Donnan, of London, suggested that as a future source of fuel we may use waterpower to obtain chlorine from salt, the gas to be used as a fuel. Jerome Alexander countered with a proposition to use waterpower to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel. By these means it is proposed to make great savings in transmitting power...
Last week at his home in Kent, he became suddenly ill with asthma. An attack of heart disease followed. Oxygen was administered to him. On Sunday morning, he died resting in his chair after breakfast...
...Monday came the ominous report that the patient was taking no nourishment; that William Gerry Morgan, Washington stomach specialist, had been called in consultation; that oxygen and hypodermic injections had been necessary to sustain life through the night...
...source of expense, this meant that there was less reserve of gas left for emergencies. A new process is now available on board the Shenandoah whereby the weight of the fuel burnt by the engines is automatically compensated for. When gasoline burns, the hydrogen it contains combines with the oxygen of the air to form water, or rather steam. In the new process the exhaust gases are cooled by huge water radiators, the steam condenses and is carefully collected as water ballast. The Secretary tasted some of this and pronounced it "excellent...