Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...
Pavements were rippling like thin ice on a pond. Steel and stone buildings trembled in a portentous wind. The sky sizzled as though tons of bacon were frying in an apocalyptic pan. "Obviously, men," gasped the Professor, "the Katz-Alpha-Ogallala nebula is approaching the earth at terrific speed, just as I predicted. We have not a moment to lose." The atom-powered space ship was ready and waiting in Joe's Parkview Garage, and off they zoomed to safety on the planet Mars, where there are marvels enough to fill a year's issues of Flabbergasting Stories...
...Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the social structure was more elaborate; descending from grey-clad Alpha Plus Intellectuals (World Controllers) to black-clad Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons...
Successful Wallop. This feat was accomplished by Cal's fantastic new 184-inch cyclotron, which packs the most powerful wallop ever achieved by man. Firing relatively heavy atomic bullets-deuterons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) and alpha particles (helium nuclei)-with a force of 200 million to 400 million electron volts, the cyclotron has almost ten times the power of the most potent cyclotron previously known (also at Cal).* At an American Physical Society meeting at Stanford last week, Physicists Glenn T. Seaborg and Isadore Perlman made the first report on what they and their California teammates, who work under...
Sole previous method for producing gaint protein molecules directly involved the natural growth processes of living organisms. At the starting point of Woodward's process are alpha amino acids, which can readily be extracted from meat of vegetables...