Word: oxygenation
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...heart, oxygen-carrying blood could not be forced up to the brain or out to the I muscles; the blood could not be returned to the lungs for reoxygenation or passed through the membranes of the kidneys for filtration and excretion of wastes...
Another process, called pyrolysis, will be used in Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Baltimore, Seattle and Charleston, W. Va. Refined by Monsanto, Union Carbide and other companies, the technique involves new, virtually oxygen-free furnaces to convert organic trash into oil or gas. In El Cajon, near San Diego, Occidental Petroleum's Garrett Research and Development Co. and the Environmental Protection Agency are jointly building a test pyrolytic plant that when completed in 1976 will have a capacity of 200 tons per day. For every ton of garbage that goes in, 1 bbl. of oil will come out, ready for sale...
...bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes out, it means that the oxygen has been depleted to dangerous levels. Each man has clipped to his belt a small canister with an hour's supply of oxygen...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons...
...important to radio astronomy. SMS-1, for instance, operates near the 18-cm. band, which is the natural wave length of hydroxyl, one of the first molecules discovered in space. It is from the signals of the hydroxyl molecule (which consists of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen) that radio astronomers have been learning about star formation and the nature of the clouds of gases between the stars...