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Trigger & Key. Nitrogen's atomic nucleus was the first to succumb to human attack. Bombarding with radioactive particles, Rutherford succeeded in changing a few nitrogen atoms into oxygen...
...Professor thinks he is likely to become more & more energetic, find the earth more & more stimulating. In the dim eons of prehistoric time, animals were unable even to crawl (because of lack of enough energy in their cells), and oxygen is a comparative newcomer (1,500,000,000 years ago) to the earth...
...known as scopolamine, the so-called "truth" drug, often used as a sedative. In a Navy test of cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½%). ¶Eating foods with lots of carbohydrates improves resistance to "blackouts" caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Reason: it reduces the body's oxygen requirements. Moral: high flyers should stoke up on bread and potatoes rather than ham & eggs...
...which developed it, said that butyl has now had a thorough tryout by the Army. has proved its value. Butyl's great virtue is that its carbon molecules have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood up for miles without going flat...
...half-inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...