Word: cadmium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reactor's power center is its fuel core. Housed in a pressure-cooker-like reactor vessel, the core is filled with pellets of fissionable uranium packed in bundles of thin cylindrical zircaloy rods. Inserted into the core are still other rods, usually made of cadmium or boron, which absorb and retain neutrons given off by the uranium atoms-in effect, stopping the billiards and regulating the intensity of the reaction. To start the reactor, the control rods are raised to precisely calculated levels. The chain reaction begins, converting mass into energy and producing great quantities of heat...
Photovoltaic cells made of silicon or cadmium sulfide, which can convert sunlight directly into electricity. Costs are very high, and existing installations are still only experimental...
...reflect on what appear to be similar- ities between Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once went to art school together: "Cadmium yellow danced boldly through her pears," Updike reports. "His gift was for line...
...paintings do not directly represent the spaces of the Midwest, any more than the jagged profiles and vertiginous falls and splits of color represent the Rockies. Yet the fundamental American sense of landscape-vast space conferring freedom-is unmistakably there. Cataracts of ultramarine blue, gorges of orange and cadmium yellow, a patch of blue appearing like the blind eye of a lake: color becomes iconography...
...Taser, powered by six rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, fires two barbs attached to 18 feet of fine wire. When the barbs hit a human, a current that can build up to a three-watt, 50,000-volt charge leaps through the closed circuit. The shock instantly disrupts the victim's nervous system, his eyes close, and he slumps to the floor jerking spasmodically. When the current is turned off, muscular control returns immediately, but a mild state of shock persists...