Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...
...eight weeks of continuous bombing of London, last week was the lightest...
...Every day there were awful atrocities The lightest of the punishments inflicted was hanging head downwards for hours and 50 lashes on the soles of the feet." Not the account of a Nazi prison camp, but just one of the many experiences that make the life of Haratune Tashjian, a rug-dealer on the Square, read like a book...
...below zero F., and the outer planets-Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto-are even colder, which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water vapor and fortunately lost most...
...Sophomore last year he ran second to Broberg in points scored. He stands six feet one and at 173 pounds is one of the lightest players on the team...