gaseous oxygen in a sentence
Examples
- Cockroaches, like all insects, breathe through a system of tubes called " cells, the tracheal tubes branching continually like a tree until their finest divisions, tracheoles, are associated with each cell, allowing gaseous oxygen to dissolve in the cytoplasm lying across the fine cuticle lining of the tracheole.
- The majority of fatalities aboard USAir 1493 occurred to those seated in the front of the plane, where the post-crash fire originated in the forward cargo hold, fed by a combination of fuel from the wreckage of SkyWest 5569 and gaseous oxygen from the 737's damaged crew oxygen system.
- Brigham Young University ( BYU ), the University of Utah, and Utah State University launched a student-designed rocket called Unity IV in 1995 which burned the solid fuel hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene ( HTPB ) with an oxidizer of gaseous oxygen, and in 2003 launched a larger version which burned HTPB with nitrous oxide.
- Air Products and Chemical Inc ., Allentown, Pa ., an industrial concern, will invest more than $ 20 million in a new air separation plant near Decatur, Ala ., which will supply gaseous oxygen, argon and compressed dry air to Trico Steel, a joint venture of LTV Corp . and British Steel PLC.