Word: stainlessness
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Plopped into a stainless-steel bowl, the polyp was rushed to the pathology laboratory only a couple of doors away. There, Dr. Lewis B. Woolner (Mayo) and Dr. James Humes (Navy) swiftly cut the main part in two and sprayed one half with a substance to deep-freeze it instantly. Then, with a microtome, they cut off slices only hundredths of a millimeter thick. Examined under the microscope, all the cells appeared to be normal; the polyp was noncancerous. All this took only 17 minutes...
...building was all wood, with the nails sunk and sealed in. Anything that might contain lead or cadmium was excluded; the principal exception to the no-metal rule was stainless steel for the cages that contained experimental rats and mice. Water pipes, where possible, were made of plastic. The pure mountain air was electrostatically filtered. Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms. The animals were fed a diet with a meticulously defined metallic content, and their pure drinking water was superpurified. Whether...
Today she and her husband have a well-equipped machine shop of their own in Paris where they arc-weld great quantities of stainless steel and brass tubing into abstract sculptures that exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open up all manner of allusions to nature. With success, their concepts and commissions have grown steadily bigger. "Using our welding technique," says Brigitte, "there is no limit." For Germany's Tubingen University, they are now putting the finishing touches on a 49-ft.-long commission, their largest to date...
...saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed. The workers gave the artists their highest accolade, offered to take them on as professional welders...
...grooved anvil at tolerances of two-thousandths of an inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so that blood can continue to circulate through the two arches and the sutured tissue will not be squeezed to death. Unlike silk or catgut sutures, which can harbor infection, the stainless steel staples are virtually nonreactive and do not hinder healing...