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• How hot must water be before it boils? While we usually think of water’s boiling point as 212 degrees F, that number is not a constant. That is the temperature for water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, or sea level, but as you gain altitude, water boils at a lower temperature. For those who live below sea level, atmospheric pressure is increased, and the boiling point is higher. Purity of the water can also affect how hot the water must be to boil. Salted water boils at a higher temperature than pure water.

• Playwright Tennessee Williams won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams III, penned the story of a wealthy Southern family living on their Mississippi plantation. The plot chronicled the turbulent relationships of the Pollitts, whose cotton tycoon patriarch is slowly dying of cancer. The play was made into a film in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. • Those who engage in firewalking walk across a bed of hot coals. The ancient act dates back to 1200 B.C., and was a test of an individual’s strength, courage, or faith. How do they do it? According to physics, the amount of time that the foot is in contact with the coals, combined with the fact that embers are not good conductors of heat enable the deed. The laws of thermodynamics say that when two bodies of different temperatures meet, the hotter body will cool off, and the cooler body will heat up. In other words, the foot’s temperature tends to change less than that of the embers. It sounds strange, but it’s actually better to walk at a slower pace, because a person is more like to be burned by running because the feet are pushed deeper into coals, and the tops of the feet are burned.

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HEIMLICH MANEUVER

Because it’s National Heimlich Heroes Week, Tidbits is focusing on the life-saving technique, the Heimlich maneuver, along with its creator. • Henry Heimlich, an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher, graduated from Cornell University, and received his M.D. in 1943. Before he created his famous maneuver designed to save people from choking, he invented the chest drainage flutter valve, now called the Heimlich valve. This device allows and air and blood to drain from the chest cavity, while preventing air from traveling back, used to treat patients with emergency chest wounds or with a collapsed lung that needs to re-expand. Although we hear mostly about the Heimlich maneuver, the chest valve has saved more lives. • Heimlich first described his method of using abdominal thrusts for choking victims in a 1974 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was compelled to create the maneuver after reading that of all accidental deaths, choking was the sixth leading cause. Up to that point, the accepted method of dislodging an object was to slap a choking victim on the back, although this had been shown to drive the object deeper into the chest. Within days of his publication in the journal, a Seattle restaurant owner was reported to have used the abdominal thrust procedure to rescue a choking victim. After a syndicated columnist associated with the medical industry wrote about the new maneuver in his column, the Journal began receiving a large volume of life-saving stories, and the technique became known as the Heimlich Maneuver. ...continued

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HEIMLICH MANEUVER (cont'd):

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