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...good incendiary should carry its own oxidizing compounds so that it can leave the oxygen of the air for the fire it is setting...
Astronomers have long known that Mars was dry, cold, almost airless. Years ago Dr. Adams found that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1 % of that in earth's air (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934). But many astronomers feel that the seasonal changes of the planet's markings must be due to some type of vegetation. For many years Dr. Percival Lowell's hypothesis, that the "canals" on Mars' surface were irrigation canals, prolonged the Man from Mars' existence. He is not wholly dead yet. Animal life may have flourished there...
...When milk streams frothily from udder to bucket, it contains much dissolved oxygen. In raw milk, bacteria then consume most of the oxygen. But pasteurization removes most of the bacteria, so the oxygen content of pasteurized milk remains high. Oxidation of the fat content may then cause papery, oily, metallic or tallowy flavors; worse, it may diminish the natural proportion of vitamin C. Obvious answer, proposed by scientists at Cornell University: take the air out of the milk. They announced development of vacuum equipment which de-aerates 1,500 quarts...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
...colors down to earth. They put gas molecules in a tube, stirred them up with a high-frequency discharge, then snapped off the current with extreme suddenness. The brief afterglow of the gases they caught in a spectroscope. They found the colors to be not only those of excited oxygen and nitrogen, the most plentiful components of the air, but also of helium, which makes up only .0005% of the atmosphere and is exceeded in scarcity only by xenon. Conclusion: there is probably lots of helium in the upper atmosphere...