Word: boron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other kinds of soil can be improved, some easily, others not. Sometimes all that a "sterile" soil needs is a trifle of boron or manganese. Such "trace elements" can make all the difference between big crops and failure...
Debating the affirmative case for the Council will be Robert M. Boron '47. Edwin J. Jacob '47, and James F. Hyan '49. Included in the judging pauel are Wasaily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, Donald C. McKan associate professor of History, and Francis M. Rogers, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literature...
...Jean-Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie succeeded in making boron, magnesium and aluminum artificially radioactive. The atoms of these normally stable substances continued to shoot out particles for some minutes after the preliminary bombardment stopped. Artificial radioactivity is the key mechanism of the atomic bomb...