Word: refrigerationer
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Certain organisms can stand intense cold; some survive temperatures of -272° Centigrade. Cold is a preservative and an anesthetic; it slows metabolism, kills pain, halts the spread of infection. Grossman & Allen found that when they packed a gangrenous leg in ice before amputation, reducing its skin temperature from the...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with...
Faint Hearts? The Government's orders had been confusing and many Londoners were unable to figure out whether their lights were supposed to be on or off. Switches could not be pulled on nonessential users of power without pulling them also on essential hospitals, dairies, refrigeration plants and the...
The Japs were counting on three new hybrid super-worms, all developed this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last...
At top speed, heat from the engine and the friction of the airstream zipping over the canopy raises the inside temperature from 40 to 60 degrees. When the outside temperature is already high, this increase is enough to prostrate the pilot. Some ships have elaborate refrigeration systems to cool the...