I kept looking at the corpse, and a wave of horror rolled through me as I recognized the face it was jarring as suddenly awakening from a nightmare, except that I had awakened from one nightmare into another," (320). ... " The only valid measurement was what the heat could do to a man, and what it could do to him was simple enough: it could kill him, bake his brains, or wring the sweat out of him until he dropped from exhaustion," (60). ... As Caputo put it, the heat was strong enough to kill a man or make him drop from exhaustion. When someone is exhausted from heat, they barely have the...

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The combustor adds heat and mass to the compressed air by burning a fuel. ... PULSE DETONATION WAVE ENGINE: One option for a hypersonic aircraft might be four or six Pulse Detonation Wave Engines (PDWEs), fuelled with liquid methane. ...

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