Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inference and mental conception has man discovered that Nothing exists. Capt. See calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving...
...Whitney, head researcher for the General Electric Co., addressed the Society on The Vacuum-There's Something in It. Last week his title was Matter-Is there Anything in It? Very little, was the answer. Though a drop of water contains some three billion trillion (21 ciphers) hydrogen atoms, there is little that is really "solid" present. If each atom became as large as a raindrop, "they would cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that...
...greatest fact that the human mind can contemplate, apart from the being and presence of God, is the stupendous movement that has been continued for countless ages, from energy to atom, from atom to molecule, from molecule to the masses of matter that form the physical universe-from matter to life, from simple to complex forms, through vegetable to animal, from beast to man, from savage to barbarian, from barbarism to civilization...
...years ago, the outstanding subject of the Society's discussions was fundamental research in the chemical compositions of crude oils. Last spring, interest focused upon the structure of the atom. Last week, the following were among the leading items and individuals on the program...
...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...