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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...
Minute blue crystals, composed of boron, chlorine, and copper, never before discovered anywhere, have been named, bandylite, in honor of their discoverer...
...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...