Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overhead shot of a biscuit warmer full of escargots seems a trifle arty, but the snails, piled high in a veil of heavenly vapor, look utterly royal. It dishonors them to say that the picture as a whole creeps at a snail's pace- but that, in a shell, is what happens...
...difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon of diamond, which has the highest vaporizing temperature of any solid substance, laser light produces a blue puff of vapor that is close to 18,000° F., about twice the temperature of the sun's white-hot surface...
Glenn speculated that the particles might be the cloud of needles the Air Force had tried to orbit last October* or that they might be snowflakes formed by the cooling of water vapor from his jet nozzles. But Glenn quickly rejected both theories. Best explanation of the phenomenon: the capsule was giving off electrically charged particles of water or gas vapor that were attracted to each other, built up the specks that Glenn saw. When Glenn later described the particles to George Rapp, a Project Mercury psychiatrist, he got the deadpan response: "What did they say. John...
...calm and self-assurance-and for jood reason. When attacked by a ferocious ant, its natural enemy, the bombardier beetle (Brachinus) merely stands its ground, pushes a flexible tube from its rear end and points it at the enemy. With a small but audible bang, a cloud of acrid vapor envelops the ant, reducing it to paralysis or trembling confusion. Until recently, the bombardier beetle's efficient defensive weapon was pretty much of a mystery. Entomologists thought that it simply squirted out a liquid that exploded on hitting the air. But in West Germany's Angewandte Chemie...
Modern information, said Sagan, indicates that the surface is not covered with water and that the cloud layer which obscures the surface is most likely frozen water vapor at a height of about 22 miles above the surface. The surface temperature seems to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 622 degrees Fahrenheit...