Word: vaporize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attack from the Sun. Anderson was riding in a 6-29 piloted by Captain Warren Cook of Vacaville, Calif. As Anderson told it later to a TIME correspondent: "There they were, eight or ten streamers [vapor trails], a beautiful picture. We turned 18° to get all the tail wind we could. As we turned, the MIGs went over past us. They were going to turn into us from the sun, make head-on passes and pick...
Alcohol in liquid form is still the only way to get drunk effectively. According to tests completed recently by two Yale scientists, just breathing in the vapor...
Even when a man is breathing hard and under great physical exertion, the amount of vapor he could inhale wouldn't get him drunk. As much as 62 percent of the alcohol inhaled is absorbed into the blood stream. The remaining 38 percent is lost through exhalation...
...fraction of a second later the main mass of iron hit the rock. It was traveling so fast that the heat of impact vaporized most of it. As the fiery jet of metallic vapor spurted out of the crater, the second meteorite struck and burrowed under the rim of rock tilted upward by the first. Most of it, too, turned into iron vapor and spurted into...
Nininger does not believe that important masses of iron are buried under the crater. Chunks found near the rim, he thinks, were loosely attached parts that somehow escaped the heat. The rest of the two main meteorites flashed into vapor and fell to earth as a deluge of white-hot iron rain...