Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle of heat-induced ice is simple. Apply a vacuum pump to water, draw off the vapor, the result is ice. Silica gel grains act as a pump. In the pores of the silica gel, the vapor liquefies, giving it enormous power to absorb vapor. With a small flame under the gel the condensed vapor is driven off, so that its absorbent qualities are unimpaired until the remaining water is frozen...
...clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...down again. He continued to hobble about in the 14th round when Greb beat Walker's face into the likeness of a suet pudding, flattened his nose, failed to knock him out only because his arms were tired-in the 15th, when Walker, with indomitable courage, exhaling a vapor of blood from his nose, staggered after Greb, backed him to the ropes, exchanged punches until the last bell rang. Then Referee Purdy, having seen the decision justly given to Greb, was helped from the ring...
...forward Pullman, in which Daniels was seated, left the rails, bumped up beside the locomotive. Clouds of searing steam, pouring from the boiler, hissed through the car's open door. Daniels plunged through the scalding vapor to shut the door. He was alive when rescuers entered. Taken outside, he refused first aid. "Fix that little girl first," said he. Doctors obeyed, returned to find Daniels dead...
...Vapor gases, of which the only one used in the War was mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide). This gas is 3. blistering penetrant, the effects of which last for a considerable length of time, owing to its slow evaporation. Ground saturated with this liquid cannot be occupied for at least a week. In high concentrations, such as were used, it is certain death, to breathe it without a mask; but although there were 150,000 casualties in the British Army from mustard gas, less than 1 in 40 died and about 1 in 200 became permanently unfit...