Word: vaporous
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...prevent colds, Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Tzvee N. Harris used propylene glycol vapor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942) last winter to spray the air of six wards containing 105 children at the Children's Seashore House in Atlantic City. While the wards were being sprayed, three children came down with colds. While the wards were unsprayed, 79 got colds...
...watt mercury vapor lamp (so hot that it must be water-cooled) which is one-fifth as bright as the sun at its surface. It could be used for lighting factories, large halls, athletic fields...
...human nose is an extraordinarily sensitive organ: it can detect as little as a billionth of a milligram of an aromatic vapor; the tongue needs at least a million times that amount in order to taste...
...that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...
...first tried gauze netting (using a small artificial cloud in his laboratory), but the tiny droplets went through his net. He decided to apply electricity: he put two gauze disks in a glass tube, created a potential of 30,000 volts between them, succeeded in condensing all the cloud vapor in his tube...