Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of lunar life until his supplies of Scotch and oxygen dwindle. Then he walks into his Zen garden in the rays of the waning earth and commits hara-kiri by slitting his space suit. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon, the results are spectacular: with a sodden poof, Dr. Kanashima dissolves into "clouds of elementary particles hurled into space at a mile a second...
...scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore...
Carbon monoxide is a cumulative poison that has a strong affinity for the hemoglobin in the blood, putting it out of action and reducing the blood's power to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. "If you breathe 30 p.p.m. for eight hours," says Haagen-Smit, "5% of the oxygen capacity of your blood is taken away." Exposure to the highest concentrations found on the freeways knocks out the same amount of hemoglobin in one hour, and Haagen-Smit believes that 5% loss is too much, especially for car commuters with heart ailments, emphysema or other respiratory troubles...
...Richard V. Ebert told a meeting of the New York Heart Association, emphysema is a more or less permanent inflation of the lungs resulting from the loss of elasticity in their deepest recesses. There the tiny alveoli, or gas-exchange cells, give up carbon dioxide and take in oxygen. Clustered around small arteries, they are so numerous that they create a huge area for gas exchange-about 85 sq. yds. in the average adult...
...emphysema, not only do many of the individual alveoli lose their elasticity, so that they do not exchange enough carbon dioxide and oxygen, but much of the lung wall itself loses its stretch. The lungs tend to remain inflated. What the patient is aware of, said Dr. Ebert, is shortness of breath-especially when he begins to exert himself. The condition gets progressively worse until the victim finds himself winded after less and less exertion. Ultimately he is out of breath even when sitting still...