Word: paraffins
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...Paraffin tests on both hands showed that Oswald had fired a gun recently...
...beauties, crones, trulls, trollops, moms, boss ladies, drabs, drudges, and just plain broads, and he has put side by side on the screen the anatomical, clinical and professional details of their lives. Women's charms include: a Japanese operation in which breasts are pumped up with liquid paraffin; a trip through a Los Angeles falsie factory; a window-shopping tour of Hamburg's bawdy-house district, where the fat hussies are on display like so many sausages; a pause for worship in Stockholm with a lady priest; a visit to a Tokyo operating room where almond eyes...
...Independence Avenue museum; they are housed in the working quarters at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center six miles away. There, conscientiously filed, are 700,000 bits of preserved human (and some animal) tissue. There are 12 million pieces that were removed at operations and fixed in paraffin, 14 million slices in slides for microscope study, and 1.1 million case histories. Since 1922, the institute has collected and stored eyes that had to be removed because of disease. Fixed in formaldehyde, wrapped in gauze, and packed in numbered plastic bags is probably the world's most comprehensive collection...
...physics professor, says of his work: "The thing that's so wonderful is that you get paid for telling the truth, just laying it out for anyone to do with as they will." It was a spare-time experiment with a borrowed electromagnet and a quarter's worth of paraffin that led to his Nobel-prizewinning "nuclear resonance" system for measuring atomic properties. In his early studies of the 21-cm. radio waves coming from hydrogen clouds in interstellar space, Purcell made do with a hastily devised antenna hung outside his Harvard laboratory. It looked like a horn left over...
...their electrons are spinning in a different way. When the atom stream shoots through a system of magnets, the low-energy atoms in it are deflected sideways while the high-energy ones converge, pass through a small hole in a 6-in. quartz bulb. The bulb is lined with paraffin which does not affect the atom's energy state as metal or bare quartz would, so the atoms bounce about inside for as much as a whole second, hitting the walls 10,000 times without losing their extra energy...