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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary light, the powerful coherent beam of the laser passes relatively unobstructed through transparent skin, giving up little of its energy in the form of heat. When it hits the colored dye particles beneath the surface of the skin, it is absorbed and converted into intense heat that instantaneously vaporizes the particles. The resulting plume of hot vapor bursts through the surface of the skin above the tattoo, charring and crusting it. In most of the 116 cases treated in the past three years at the university's laser laboratory, the seared areas of skin have healed rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plastic Surgery: Laserasing Tattoos | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

Although the spongelike material fills the tank, it soaks up the fuel and capaci ty is not significantly reduced. The or ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Safer Skies | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...patterns by scientists at Block Associates in Cambridge, Mass., produced two of the clearest spectrograms ever obtained of Venus at high altitude. Although the spectrograms conclusively proved that there were no ice crystals in the Venusian atmosphere, they did reveal what appeared to be a significant trace of water vapor. But Kuiper and his associates were not deceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Venus Is Dead, & Too Hot | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Desolate Planet. To cancel out the effects of any water vapor in the portion of the earth's atmosphere still above them, the airborne astronomers had also taken about 1,000 interferograms of the moon, which was close to Venus in the sky during the flight. Although the moon is known to be dry, the lunar spectrograms produced by the Block computers also showed evidence of a trace of water vapor. The vapor, the scientists knew, had been detected not on the moon but in the earth's atmosphere. Thus, by eliminating the same proportion of terrestrial vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Venus Is Dead, & Too Hot | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...based on a phenomenon often demonstrated in high school chemistry classes: if open bottles of ammonia and hydrochloric acid are placed close together, a white cloud of ammonium chloride particles forms above them. These particles serve as nuclei for the condensation of the air's water vapor into tiny, foglike droplets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Applied Science: Sniffing Out the Enemy | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

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