Word: 80th
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...difference between mercury and gold, automicly speaking, is that an atom of gold consists of a nucleus and 79 electrons grouped around it, whereas an atom of mercury consists of a nucleus surrounded by 80 electrons. Take an atom of mercury; if you could, knock off the 80th electron and you would have an atom of gold...
Here is a new temptation to solve the old problem of alchemy?how to make gold. Here is the 80th electron of a mercury atom revolving around its nucleus, much like a planet around the sun, waiting to be knocked off and leave the precious old Midas-metal in the chemist's palm...
...they are attempting it. But it is not as easy as it sounds. The 80th electron cannot be displaced with a pair of tweezers or a baseball bat. For this atom, which is too small to be seen, is also too substantial to be easily dissected...
Feast. A fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Harvey W. Wiley, coeur-de-lion of pure-food crusades, onetime chief U. S. Government Chemist, sat down to dinner. The occasion was his 80th birthday; his hosts were the members of the Agricultural Chemists' Association, of which he is the Honorary President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper...
...always with kindly irony, a gentle skepticism. It was thus that the people of France came to think of the author of Thais and The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and The Red Lily and The Rotisserie of Queen Pédauque -a philosopher, an immortal symbol. Now, in the 80th year of his life, Anatole France is dead...