Word: carbonations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total volume of water which runs over the surface of the U.S. in a year." The devastating effect of that hot water on man and nature, the scientists did not bother to describe. But half those plants (running on conventional fuels) would gush 8.75 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year-enough to change the globe's climate. The other half (nuclear powered) would increase the level of background radiation by as much as 2% a year-enough to have "unforeseeable effects on the world's living things, including...
...Intrepid's center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles Morgan Jr., a Florida yacht-builder and an experienced ocean racer. Though his do-it-yourself venture extends to cutting his own sails, he likes to call...
...telescopes, astronomers have lately discovered a number of complex molecules in interstellar space: water, ammonia, formaldehyde and pairs of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that are ingredients of many other chemical combinations. Now the list has been further expanded. Researchers at the Bell Telephone Labs have detected large quantities of carbon monoxide in vast clouds of gas and dust in the Milky...
...astrochemistry-is dependent on a fundamental property of molecules. When they are bombarded by radiation from the stars, they respond in a precise and predictable way: they radiate electromagnetic waves at characteristic frequencies. Detected by radio telescopes, these waves are the "fingerprints" that scientists use to identify interstellar molecules. Carbon-monoxide molecules, for example, radiate at an incredible 115 billion hertz (115 billion cycles...
...recalls, he saw "a bump that hadn't been there before." When the antenna was slightly moved, the bump disappeared. The scientists could scarcely believe their eyes. Though the equipment had just been switched on, it was already vigorously responding at 115 billion hertz-the fingerprint of carbon monoxide. The carbon-monoxide signals are, in fact, so strong, Jefferts says, that they almost "jump up and bite you." Any lingering doubts were totally dispelled in the next few nights. Shifting their telescope to other areas of the Milky Way, the astrochemists found at least ten galactic clouds that contain...