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atmosphere and is
the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.
and the atmosphere is so befouled that no one dares walk in the open without respirators or soot plugs.
I am referring to this country conducting atmosphere tests of nuclear bombs just because Russia is.
The Fairmount Park Commission will no doubt approve my two proposals, because it is responsible for the change of ideological atmosphere in the Square.
Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.
Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.
There is a new atmosphere of urgency in Washington this week.
This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.
For the case of Jupiter, the radio emission spectrum is definitely not like the spectrum of a black-body radiator, and it seems very likely that the radiation reaching the earth is a combination of thermal radiation from the atmosphere and non-thermal components.
In free-burning electric arcs, for instance, approximately 90% of the total arc power is transferred to the anode giving rise to local heat fluxes in excess of Af as measured by the authors -- the exact value depending on the arc atmosphere.
We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.
Specimens are allowed to reach moisture equilibrium with a standard atmosphere of Af and Af and then laid out without tension on a flat, polished surface, care being taken that the fabric is free from wrinkles or creases.
In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.
When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.
The first step toward the goal is the establishment of a new atmosphere of mutual good will and friendly communication on other than the polemical level.
Broadly speaking the total Catholic atmosphere is such an intangible but the larger demand is for a sense of creative participation and mature responsibility in the total work of the university.
It is an over-all impression Mr. Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere and of echoes of the past.
`` The planet is very low in radiation from mineral deposits, and the atmosphere seems to shield out most of the solar output.
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.
" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.
Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

atmosphere and breathable
He suggested that comets could be engineered to contain hollow spaces filled with a breathable atmosphere, thus providing self-sustaining habitats for humanity in the outer solar system.
A breathable atmosphere of at least 35 kPa ( 5psi ) must be maintained, with adequate amounts of oxygen, nitrogen, and controlled levels of carbon dioxide, trace gases and water vapor.
The air and moisture in the thin atmosphere gathered at the bottom of this artificial canyon, creating a breathable environment, complete with a sea at the bottom.
Mars and most other planets have a breathable atmosphere for humanity in Larklight.
Mars is shown as being previously inhabited by an ancient race of aliens who created a machine for producing a breathable atmosphere and later terraforming the planet.
Its successor, Red Faction: Guerilla, tells the story of another revolt half a century later, on a partially terraformed planet with a breathable atmosphere, against the corporate-funded Earth Defence Force, in the Tharsis region of Mars.
In Komarr, we learn that terraforming may eventually provide a breathable atmosphere outside the domed cities.
Genetic engineering is first mentioned in Red Mars ; it takes off when Sax creates an alga to withstand the harsh Martian temperature and convert its atmosphere into breathable air.
A bioship explored by members of the Voyager crew contained an atmosphere breathable by humanoids ; however as it was in atmospheric contact with the inside of a Borg cube at the time, it is possible the original atmosphere of the bioship had been displaced by the internal atmosphere of the Borg vessel.
Inert gas can also be used to purge the tank of the volatile atmosphere in preparation for gas freeing-replacing the atmosphere with breathable air-or vice versa.
Penetration diving or overhead diving is a type of diving where the diver enters a space from which there is no direct, purely vertical ascent to the safety of breathable air of the atmosphere at the surface.
* In C. S. Lewis ' Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ), the " canals " ( handramit in Martian ) are actually vast rifts in the surface of an almost airless, desert Mars, in which the only breathable atmosphere and water have collected where life is possible, with the rest of Mars being entirely dead.
* in pressurised aircraft to provide a breathable atmosphere of higher than ambient pressure.
The original 750-kilowatt generators devoured air ; in the sealed up environment of the complex, instead of weeks the generators would have cut life support for the complex's personnel to a mere few hours, as the machines sucked away the breathable atmosphere.
By the late 23rd Century, it had long been terraformed with a more breathable atmosphere.
The cabin is pressurized, maintaining a sea level breathable atmosphere.
( In this film, the moon has a breathable atmosphere on its far side, per the theories of Peter Andreas Hansen, who is mentioned near the beginning of the film.
The atmosphere is breathable by carbon-based life, but liquid water is rare enough on the planet that its existence is in doubt.
Its gravity is light enough that humans are able to traverse the surface without any trouble, and it possesses a breathable atmosphere.
Conditions on Io are difficult: gravity is 1 / 6 that of Earth's with no breathable atmosphere, spacesuits are cumbersome, and miners carry their own air supply.
Bagworld possesses its own, apparently infinite breathable atmosphere, but no known native lifeforms ; thus, a living creature placed inside is in no danger of suffocation, though death by starvation and / or dehydration is possible if the creature is not supplied with provisions.

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