Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin Core. In 1954 Bell Labs found that a compound of niobium and tin becomes superconductive at the comparatively high temperature of 18°K (-428°F.).† Later work hinted that the compound might keep its superconductivity in strong magnetic fields. Since it is extremely brittle and cannot be drawn into wires, it was put on the shelf for a while, but eventually Bell Lab scientists patiently learned how to make a tube out of pure niobium, fill it with a mixture of powdered niobium and tin, draw it down to a wire, then heat it to make...
...spur for them to put pressure on each other. However, in the meantime, for the free and neutral nations to have to take on faith two such world-conquest-minded troublemakers (when the one already in the United Nations will not submit to inspection) would merely compound all of the other problems...
...humiliating attack that purpled faces from Quantico to Korea. Reason for all the commotion: an article in Cavalier, a corpuscular magazine with a large barracksroom circulation, that made the Marines' Hymn and many of the corps' proudest boasts sound like the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. To compound the horror, the author was a certified leatherneck with 26 years' service in the corps, retired Brigadier General William B. McKean...
During his Fall Term sabbatical at the University of Amsterdam, Pappenheimer plans to study the broad topic of oxidative phosphorylation. Of particular interest to him is ATP, the major energy-storing compound of the living cell. ATP is involved in the cytochrome oxidizing processes mentioned above. Thus, Pappenheimer's work at Amsterdam will probably yield additional information concerning his old friend, diphtheria toxin...
...constructing the stands in front of the Capitol. No detail was overlooked. The National Park Service, seeking to achieve a touch of spring, sprayed fresh green dye on the lawns surrounding the Lincoln Memorial. Trees along the inaugural route got a light coating of Roost-No-More, a compound guaranteed to put Washington's pesky starlings to flight. Secret Service agents battened down manhole covers on the right of way to forestall any bomb-planting saboteur, set up surveillance posts on rooftops and other strategic spots, organized an overall security guard...