Word: vapor
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...about 600 Ibs. The proliferation of the relatively harmless isotope has been of little concern to most laymen and scientists, but it has enabled University of Miami Chemist Gote Ostlund to draw an important conclusion about hurricanes: instead of getting most of their energy from condensing atmospheric water vapor, as meteorologists previously believed, they are powered largely by vapor sucked up from...
Ostlund's findings, which he reported last week to a Miami conference on tropical oceanography, were derived from samples of water vapor he collected in September during harrowing "hurricane hunter" plane flights through Betsy, the storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Though the amount of tritium in atmospheric water vapor over the central Atlantic and the Caribbean is usually from eight to ten times the quantity in sea water, the concentration in the samples Ostlund collected decreased as the plane approached the storm center. In the vapor in the cloud wall surrounding the storm...
Only one conclusion seemed plausible to Ostlund: the decrease in tritium in his samples resulted from the dilution of atmospheric vapor with relatively tritium-free vapor drawn up from the sea. For every ounce of atmospheric vapor in Hurricane Betsy, he calculated, there were almost two ounces of sea water vapor-a finding that strongly suggested Betsy had derived about 60% of her energy from...
...Corvallis, Ore., Governor Mark Hatfield dedicated a new office and research center for the five-year-old MicroFLOC Corp., whose high-rate water-filtration system is one of the world's most advanced, has been bought by 50 communities and industries. General Electric has developed a gas and vapor measurer and a condensation nuclei counter that counts dirt particles in the air, is test-marketing an electronic air cleaner for homes...
According to Aristotle. Desalinization, one of the oldest methods of all, is getting a workout, not only in Israel but around the world. Aristotle taught his students that "salt water, when it turns into vapor, becomes sweet, and the vapor does not form salt water again when it condenses." Julius Caesar relied on stills to convert salt water for his legions to drink during the siege of Alexandria. Ancient mariners learned to boil their drinking water from the sea. Only now, however, is desalinization being attempted on a large scale...