Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was five, his grandfather had aroused in Robert an interest in minerals. He had a sailboat which he named Trimethy-after trimethylene bichloride, a compound for which he had apparently developed an attachment...
...Premier Mohammed Naguib swung easily out the gate of Egypt's Revolutionary Command compound one day last week, whistling merrily. It soon developed that either he was whistling in the dark, or whistling because he was glad that it was all over...
...bombs (the March 1 explosion may have been the first of them) use chemical forces instead of cold and pressure to keep their volatile hydrogen crammed into a small space. Their main charge is lithium hydride, a chemical compound containing one atom of lithium and one of hydrogen. Since it is a stable solid that needs no unusual treatment, its use eliminates the troubles connected with liquid hydrogen. It is the key to what airmen call a "transportable" H-bomb...
Plain lithium hydride, which can be bought on the open market, is probably not the kind that the bomb-builders use. Natural lithium contains two isotopes, L17 and L16, which behave differently in a fusion reaction. Most guessers believe that L16 is the preferred isotope. The hydrogen in the compound is probably deuterium (H²). So the compound may be described as "lithium-six deuteride...
...process is secret, but the AEC has spent more than $1,000,000 helping International Minerals develop its method of extracting the pasty green uranium compound from phosphates (probably deposited in the rock by sea water). Extracting uranium from phosphates is not new. Scientists have known about it for years, but large-scale production has always been too expensive. By introducing new methods and by making it a byproduct of its normal business, International Minerals makes the old idea pay new dividends. Florida has the world's richest-known phosphate deposits, and the AEC says that, suitably developed...