Word: atomical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More Matter. The physicists are creeping up on the origin of matter. Dr. Robert Andrew Millikan of the California Institute of Technology, pursuing his study of the cosmic ray, has illuminated new chapters in the celestial life of the hydrogen atom. Those infinitely tiny but infinitely active particles not only leap at each other explosively to form helium, but also by special jumps unite to form oxygen and nitrogen. The exact nature of the jump is not yet fully understood, but each different jump shoots off its own private signal, a ray of definite power...
...Louis, busy mart, came 1,500 chemists for the 75th meeting of the American Chemical Society; organic chemists, inorganic chemists, biological chemists, physical chemists, industrial chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical...
...Stepping up" his movie machine, he has taken reels of the reeling helium atoms; his picture gallery now consists of 100,000 photographs showing the tracks of about 1,000,000 atoms. The atomic trail is infinitesimal, a narrow path (usually straight but sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only...
...shock of a helium nucleus crashing into the nucleus of a nitrogen atom causes an explosion which disintegrates the atom. Out of the wreck a new fluorine atom emerges, but not for long. It explodes immediately, shooting off a furiously fast atom of hydrogen and a slower atom of a new kind of oxygen which is heavier than either the helium or the nitrogen atom. According to Einstein's theory, when helium is formed from lighter hydrogen atoms, energy is given off (enough to heat an ordinary house from 500 to 1 ,000 years in the formation...
...mean a leader who will provide incentives to the creative energies of his people, combing the nation over for its creative brains, seeing to it that no atom of genius is allowed to wither in isolation or starve for lack of recognition...