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...vehicles in far-out space suffer from some far-out troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
...house plants that afternoon, she had bitten a piece of stalk from a handsome specimen with striped leaves, called Dieffenbachia. Her pain was so severe that the doctors had to give her a morphine-type drug. After a while she was able to take, though painfully, a little aluminum-magnesium hydroxide as an antidote to whatever poison she might have swallowed. Her face and blistered mouth remained painful for more than a week, and she had to be content with a liquid diet and baby foods. What makes this case important, say Drs. George Drach and Walter H. Maloney...
Soon NBC was bringing off stunts that the Kremlin would not quickly forget. They fired a cannon to re-create the moment when the charred remains of the Pretender Dmitry were muzzle-loaded and blasted back toward Poland. With smoke pots and magnesium flares, they simulated the burning of the Kremlin by Napoleon. Though Moscow's fire department had been warned, ten or twelve noisy fire trucks came rushing to the scene anyway...
...lots of rope, but no one got entangled in it, and the first Mariner was produced on schedule. It was a strange and beautiful object, worthy to be displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless...
...This indicates," Dr. Wacker pointed out, "that there is mitotic arrest and a block in both RNA and protein synthesis resulting from zinc deficiency--a condition that is not reversed when other trace metals [iron, manganese, copper, magnesium and calcium] metabolic precursors or metabolites, are added to the nutrient solution in which the organism is grown...