Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edge pattern, made by painting a slurry of clay and steel filings along the blade just before its last firing and quenching, is even more pictorial. Its crystalline opacities resemble those of classical sumi-e ink painting, suggesting hills, river currents, islands or the wreathing of vapor. Dr. Compton likes to compare Kunimune's hamon to "low-lying mist on a swamp, with searchlights playing over it." These configurations are not seen as decoration, like inlay work or chasing on a Western sword...
Soil Scoop. On Mars, the laboratory will be served by a mechanical arm, which will reach out and scoop soil up from the surface. One small sample of soil will be dropped into a vessel containing natural Martian atmosphere. Then water vapor and carbon dioxide tagged with radioactive carbon 14 will be added. After five days of incubation under simulated Martian sunlight, the atmosphere will be removed, and the soil heated to 1160° F., hot enough to vaporize organic material. If any organism in the soil has incorporated the radioactive carbon dioxide by a process similar to terrestrial photosynthesis...
...filled his brain, not its dry facts." When the fumes wove in harmony with the demands of visual truth, Turner became an epic dramatist-as Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus shows, with that sublime apparition of a galleon, canvas flapping and looping, escorted by Nereids through a lake of fire and vapor, under the dimly discernible, looming profile of the giant...
...carbon dioxide, will not, says Berry, intimidate 21st century scientists. He notes that there is already a proposal to inject into the atmosphere of Venus hardy algae that feed on carbon dioxide. This would liberate oxygen, let heat escape from the planet's surface, and cause condensed water vapor to fall as rain. Oceans would form, plants could take root and grow, and Venus would be ready for colonizers from earth...
...Roll ads under "Metropolis Mailbag" in Superman comics: the same color seeming lighter or darker according to its background, a green, black and orange flag that makes you see red, white and blue when you look away. A prism breaks white light into the color spectrum, and a sodium vapor lamp turns everyone's skin yellow. There are lots of fun knobs to turn and fun buttons to push, and color TV excerpts from ZOOM. But in failing to approach the really challenging question of why color works the way it does, the Museum frustrates the viewer's curiosity...