Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stick, soared into the air and circled upward, ever upward, one mile, two miles, three, four, five, six, seven miles. Another 1,000 ft. he climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world...
...taxied 25 yards and his machine took the air. Beginning to climb at an angle of 30 degrees, he went upward at the rate of 3,000 ft. per minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
High in the sky Apollo opened his oxygen supply full. The temperature was nearing a minimum of 76° below zero. The controls were growing stiff from cold. It became impossible to see anything even through the holes in the goggles. In spite of the temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude...
...July the Arctic is clotted with ice, not frozen over. Every 25 miles or so are lakes amidst the ice cakes. With a crew of twelve men and oxygen to supply them under water for 48 to 60 hours if necessary, Explorer Wilkins believes he can cross between Spitsbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska, within three weeks...
That is, about 40 living forms secrete a substance called luciferin. In the presence of moisture luciferin oxidizes, forming oxy-luciferin, the substance which actually glows. As oxy-luciferin glows it loses its oxygen and returns to luciferin, which after a short rest may be oxidized again...