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Word: columbium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquid lithium flows through the hot reactor core and emerges at 2,000° F. The tubes that carry it, made of zirconium-columbium alloy, run at near white heat. The lithium is piped through a heat exchanger and turns liquid potassium (boiling point, 1,400° F.) to high-pressure gas that runs a turbine producing 300 kw. to 1,000 kw. of electricity. The potassium gas goes to a wide, flat condenser to be turned back into a liquid (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Reactor for Space | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...bigger National Distillers, with assets of $625 million. As unlikely at first glance as marriage of a parson and a show girl, merger would actually make good sense because National, second biggest U.S. maker of polyethylene (first: Union Carbide), also owns 60% of Reactive Metals, Inc. (zirconium, titanium, tantalum, columbium), managed by Bridgeport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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