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...vision and experiment for 30 years, the mercury-vapor turbine is now finally developed to a point where it may yield the 50% or more increase in power-producing efficiency which has long been hoped from it. For three General Electric engineers (in papers recently published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) report that the known faults of mercury-vapor engines have at last been conquered...
...heat into energy. Reason: most of the heat must always be transferred not to the turbine's whirling rotors as force but to the water which cools and condenses the steam for re-use in the boiler. Much of this wasted heat is conserved in a mercury-vapor turbine operating with a secondary steam turbine. The mercury vaporized at 975° F., blasts through the rotors and then, while condensing, boils the water which cools it. This creates steam for a second turbine. Some heat is still wasted, of course, when the steam in turn is condensed...
...Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress...
...Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin's death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars. It was 50 degrees below zero. To Correspondent Eve Curie, a little old woman in a tattered shawl said: "This is a real Russian winter. A winter to freeze Russia's enemies. A winter to freeze Hitler...
...increase the percentage of isooctane (and similar compounds). Isooctane is a hydrocarbon, C8H18, which is one of the hundreds of compounds which make up the chemical mixture called gasoline. But isooctane alone makes a poor fuel because it is not volatile enough, does not readily carburet into explodible vapor...