Word: oxygenation
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...scene, set up his emergency unit and began transmitting messages. Samples: "Joe Vasquez not expected to live. Is in Room 323, St. Joseph's Infirmary [Houston]." "To Fort Crockett: send all available officer-type gas masks." "To Houston Boilermakers' Union: please send 50 bottles of oxygen and acetylene Texas City...
...peaceful, as most other salts are. Instead of having a metal (e.g., sodium or iron) as the basic part of its molecule, it has an ammonium "radical" (one nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms) masquerading as a metal. Its acid part is also a radical: one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms (see chart...
Ammonium nitrate's outwardly peaceful molecule perpetually strains with suppressed desires. The oxygen and hydrogen atoms are not combined with each other, as their natures prompt them to be. They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety...
Under ordinary conditions, the straining atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...
President Basil O'Connor of the Foundation, joining with President Conant in the announcement, stated that attempts would be made to determine objectively the nature and characteristics of different types of respiratory involvement and to develop new techniques for administering oxygen to stricken children...