Word: oxygenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Medical School has come word of the latest contribution of science to the art of good living. Oxygen is threatening the traditional supremacy of alcohol as general "pick-me-up." Drawn into the lungs in quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...
...been in the matter of fuel. Since a rocket is like an upward moving gun firing continuously at the ground, it was natural for the first experimenters to use gunpowder. But powder burned unevenly and it was extremely dangerous. The new technique is to use liquid oxygen and a liquid fuel such as gasoline or alcohol, which do not mix until the rocket is ready to go off. Such a mixture develops energies ten times greater than...
...that fortune awaited the man who found a way to make aluminum cheaply. The story is that Charles nudged his neighbor, whispered: "I'm going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back yard, trying dozens of solvents in vain. His crucibles were shaky, his batteries uncertain. Finally he found that electrically melted cryolite, a mineral from Greenland, would dissolve the ore. Then he tried to electrolyze...
...rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
When he gave the kidneys artificial fevers, they increased their absorption of oxygen until temperatures reached the equivalent of 107° in human beings. When a sick man's temperature reaches that height, his kidneys usually cease to function and he sinks into a coma. Autopsy usually discloses his kidneys damaged. That the damage begins with overexertion of mitochondria in the kidney cells seemed probable last week when Dr. Wilson reported that at the equivalent of 107° fever, rabbit kidney mitochondria suddenly shattered...