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Catalyst. Chemically, platinum is capable of changing certain noxious gases, including smog-producing hydrocarbons, into harmless carbon dioxide and water vapor. A platinum-coated honeycombed structure called a catalytic converter has so far performed best in meeting the tough federal emissions standards for '75 and '76 model cars. According to top auto executives, the amount of platinum needed for each car is one-tenth of an ounce. Thus, with total U.S. new-car sales expected to top 10 million units annually for the foreseeable future, manufacturers will need more than a million ounces of platinum a year...
...flight, he talked further to TIME'S Austin. He differed with McGovern on some issues, and he wondered "just how far the Vice President can disagree in public with the President." He thought, on the other hand, the public might like a Veep who "is not a carbon copy of the President." Was he irked at being McGovern's fifth choice this week? "No, I'm not egotistical enough to think I'm the only option open to George McGovern...
...direction opposite to that of the other planets, Venus has a surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs and red-hot pools of molten metals. The planet's atmosphere is no less forbidding-mostly carbon dioxide plus thick yellow clouds that may be a poisonous brew of such substances as hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride or salts of mercury. In fact, the composition of these clouds is still a prime question for scientists. Only in the upper layers does the atmosphere even vaguely resemble that of the earth...
Because it is the second planet from the sun, Venus is exposed to about twice as much solar radiation as the earth. But this proximity alone does not account for the high Venusian temperature. While its carbon-dioxide atmosphere lets in the sun's radiation, it also keeps in the heat (infrared rays) given off from the planet's surface, thus creating a "greenhouse effect." Furthermore, as the temperature rises, more carbon dioxide is boiled into the atmosphere, only to increase the effect...
Young was released from Broadmoor last year despite evidence that he seems to have conducted certain interesting pharmacological "experiments" there. He was once caught growing deadly nightshade, and also taught fellow inmates how to get an easy high on tea by running carbon monoxide from a gasoline burner through it with a hose...