Word: vaporizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their experiments, Chemist Cyril Ponnamperuma and Geochemist Gordon Hodgson flashed a continuous electric arc through a mixture of ammonia, methane and water vapor at NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco. The arc simulated lightning, and the mixture was similar to the atmosphere that most scientists believe existed before life began. In addition to the amino acids, proteins, nucleotides and other life-foundation molecules that were created in previous experiments-some by Ponnamperuma himself-a small amount of an unidentified substance was produced...
...fact, the same thing-as the art work itself." Visitors could join in the esthetic experience by meandering between the smoking pylons of art. "What makes it so weird," said one visitor with a shiver of delight, "is that you can't see your feet through the vapor." "What makes it so wild," mused another, "is that a combination of art and ice ineluctably becomes arce...
Died. Harry Steenbock, 81, longtime (1908-56) University of Wisconsin research chemist and pioneer in vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled...
Andrew R. Grainger '69, the only occupant present at the outbreak, said that a defective can of charcoal lighter fluid caused the blaze. "While I was cooking a steak, the can of fluid ignited at the side of the fireplace. The apparent cause was a vapor leak...
...final dash, the escapee must cross the new version of the old Death Strip. This is now, variously, a 100-ft. lawn or a cinder covering, where powerful mercury-vapor lamps make even the most fleeting figure an easy target at night. In some places, there is the added hazard of hidden 6-in. steel spikes. In the unlikely event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that...