Word: atomized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fermi had arrived in the U. S. to take charge of summer work in physics at Columbia, and that University was eager to let the world know that it was harboring for a few weeks Italy's foremost researcher on the physics of the atom. Since artificial radioactivity was discovered by the Curie-Joliots of Paris (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934), Dr. Fermi by bombardments with neutrons has induced radioactivity in more elements (about 40) than any other scientist...
...Separation of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, from the blood serum would require 180 years by gravity sedimentation, but may be accomplished in six hours with DuPont's new Svedberg (1 electro-condenser, 2 atom gun, 3 molecular magnet, 4 centrifuge, 5 chemical reducer...
...balmy spring night last week two men were alone in a big brick building on the Princeton University campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube...
Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...
...department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards an atom, rather than as a living and ever-present reality, the understanding of which is one of the purposes of studying government...