Word: atomizer
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...technical skills that made the atom bomb possible also revolutionized power production...
Soft Particles. For a while last week, medical circles were abuzz with a rumor that a U.S.-designed atom-powered pacemaker had also been implanted-in an American patient. That word proved to be premature; scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute are still testing their prototypes in dogs...
...target was tiny-two-millionths of an ounce of a heavy, man-made isotope. The "bullets" were even smaller -atomic nuclei fired by an atom smasher. But the results of the experiment which were reported last week at a Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, made big news in the world of nuclear physics. A new chemical element, No. 105, has been created and identified...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
Pornography and Prayer. Douglas provoked earlier impeachment attempts in 1953, when he briefly stayed the execution of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg because their second request for habeas corpus raised a substantial question that the court had not previously considered. The attempted impeachment died in the House Judiciary Committee, and Douglas continued to join Justice Hugo Black in vigorous dissents urging the protection of the rights of the unpopular. In cases involving free speech and assembly, Douglas has argued that the First Amendment is intended to protect everyone, including "miserable merchants of unwanted ideas." Direct action, he conceded...