Word: barium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relieved of nothing but their money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
Uranium fission works by dividing large "bushel basket" nuclei. When a uranium nucleus splits in two, forming two smaller nuclei such as krypton and barium, the weight of all fragments added together is less than that of the original uranium. The weight-loss turns into free energy...