Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General Alfred Jodl, Dr. Hans Frank), prayed at the execution of six of the convicted and was disappointed when Hermann Göring, who he thought had made a '"sincere" return to religion, preferred a cyanide of potassium capsule to his final ministrations; of a heart attack; in Chester...
...surgeon in chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Dr. Moore is the nation's-perhaps the world's-outstanding authority on the vital importance of "electrolyte balance" in preserving life (TIME, Oct. 6,1952). The balance is usually expressed simply in terms of sodium salt solutions v. potassium salt solutions in the blood. But recent years' work has shown that it is far more complex than that...
Hard-won knowledge of the body's complex chemistry has developed the use of hormones such as ACTH and cortisone and their synthetic variants, and has led to life-saving control of a patient's sodium and potassium during severe illness and surgery. Thanks to new machines (see box), what once seemed impossible and then miraculous is now almost common place. And, notes U.C.L.A.'s Medical Dean Stafford Warren, "More medical research has been published since World War II than in all prior history...
...land has a fierce and lonely beauty all its own-windswept plateaus, shifting seas of sand, canyons slashing down through layers of sandstone, and, always on the far horizon, mountains of barren granite. Beneath the ground is a fabulous treasure of coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork...
Cookies, Too. Pilgrim believes that on short space jaunts the crewmen will breathe bottled oxygen. For longer voyages, a chemical recycling system that Boeing has developed looks more practical. It uses potassium or sodium super-oxide to generate oxygen and absorb CO2. Only on very long voyages, the sort that are measured in years, will closed systems using algae be the most efficient. On such space ventures, the crew may even be able to eat the excess algae (Pilgrim's daughter Vicki Leigh, 15, has made acceptable cookies of them), eliminating much of the need for toting food...