Word: ammoniac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect, was an electronic chemistry lab, Clementi ordered the computer to produce the mathematical specifications for one molecule of ammonia and one of hydrochloric acid. The obedient computer was then told to move the two molecules together gradually until they combined to form ammonium chloride (commonly called sal ammoniac), a chemical found in such varied products as cough medicines and battery electrolytes...
Inaccessible Reactions. While it was providing visual information, the computer was also spewing out torrents of printed data describing the energy that binds together a molecule of sal ammoniac. It also spelled out the temperatures and pressures at which the chemical can exist. To Clementi's surprise, the computer revealed that at a temperature around 1300°F-and at high pressure -sal ammoniac, which was previously believed to exist only as a solid, could also be a gas. Two University of Brussels chemists have since produced sal-ammoniac gas in their laboratory, using the computer data for guidance...
Siegel and his associates incubated the soil in a hostile ammoniac atmosphere, and fed it with a nutrient broth. Within weeks, there appeared a strange microorganism, umbrella-shaped, with radiating spokes and a stalk terminating in a bulb. Though unfamiliar with anything like it, Siegel noted that the organism flourished amid conditions resembling the ammonia-laden atmosphere that probably prevailed on earth when the earliest forms of life were developing, some 3 billion years...