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...steel combine with salt water to form a weak natural battery. The resulting electric current peels electrons from the hull, making it easier for oxygen atoms to attach themselves; oxidation, or rusting, ensues. To protect the Monitor while officials decide what to do, scientists may attach "sacrificial anodes" of zinc to the hull to divert the corrosion process away from the aging metal...
...below ground, in a salt mine under Lake Erie, in the Kamioka lead and zinc mine in Japan, in the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking Italy and France, and in another tunnel under Mount Elbrus in the Soviet Union, scientists carefully examined data from computer printouts. They were hoping that some of the ethereal particles called neutrinos, predicted by theory to be produced during a supernova, had penetrated the earth, leaving their trail in huge liquid- filled neutrino detectors. Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, of the University of Texas in Austin, summarized the activity while addressing a hastily convened meeting of astronomers...
...least some of the latest paraphernalia. A six-foot board, which costs between $250 and $350, is only the start. Next come the wildly colored drawstring trunks, the boldly patterned shirts, beach cruisers (bicycles with balloon tires and wide seats ( priced at $125 or so) and Zinka, multicolored zinc oxide applied like war paint. Those of drinking age reach for Corona beer, a favorite Mexican brew at Hussong's Cantina, a surfing hangout in Baja California. Noting the influence of the bar on surf culture, Moctezuma Imports, which markets Corona, has introduced a new brand called Hussong...
...leaves some veteran wave climbers bemused. Ed Hagan, 33, of Queens, N.Y., remembers how at the age of eight he transported his % surfboard on a converted shopping cart to Rockaway Beach. "All you ever needed was a board, trunks, wax and the urge to get wet." What? No multicolored zinc oxide...
...says zinc oxide has to be ugly? This summer the goop that surfers and sailors put on their faces to prevent sunburn can be stylish as well as protective. Thanks to new products called Zinka and Le Zink, zinc-oxide cream is no longer available only in drab white. It now comes in hot pink, deep purple and many other shades, enabling sun worshipers to color-coordinate their noses with their beach balls and bikinis...