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...their lurid climax before extinction, there lived in the sea shallows a big mollusk, Inoceramus, with a shell width up to four feet. Inoceramus was not much different from modern oysters, made pearls the same way-surrounding a foreign irritant inside its shell with concentric layers of the calcium-carbon-oxygen compound called nacre...
Planetary life, whatever its forms, must be built of cells or some other organic units comparable to the cells of earth's plants and animals. Such cells must have access to water, as a medium of nourishment and energy exchange, and to oxygen or carbon dioxide for metabolism. An atmosphere would also be desirable, 1) as a storehouse of oxygen and carbon dioxide; 2) as a shield against the ultraviolet radiation of the parent sun; 3) as a muffler against sharp day & night temperature changes. Any conceivable kind of living cell would be killed or paralyzed by extreme cold...
...nearest of the major planets to Earth and almost the same size. Its diameter is 7,700 miles against Earth's 7,927 miles. Venus has a dense atmosphere; its surface is constantly veiled by clouds. But the spectroscope discloses that Venus' atmosphere is largely composed of carbon dioxide; there is no discernible oxygen. Animal life could hardly get a foothold in such an environment. If there were vegetable life, it would have converted some of the carbon dioxide into oxygen. Dr. Jones considers that Venus is more or less in Earth's condition of a billion...
...difference between wood and oil is that wood is mostly carbohydrates (com posed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) whereas oil is mostly hydrocarbons (composed of carbon and hydrogen only). Chemically these two great classes of compounds behave very differently. But economically the really important difference between wood and oil is that wood-burning locomotives are obsolete, whereas oil-burning Diesel trains are the height of modernity...
...Wehn of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. opened the company shipping room in downtown Manhattan and found that someone had been there before him. A three-foot hole gaped through a brick wall into an adjoining building. Empty were shelves and storage bins. Missing were valuable, high-speed drills and carbon-steel drills used in machine tools for airplane-engine and munitions manufacture-drills, that had been packed in cloth and straw and wrapped in brown paper, ready for shipment...