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...heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull's-eye on californium nuclei. Atoms formed by the combination of californium and boron bounced off the nickel foil, were slowed by collision with helium atoms and were picked up by a copper conveyor belt. At intervals, an automatic device moved the copper belt a short distance, bringing the newly created atoms close to a series of silicon radiation detectors. About five times each hour the detectors signaled the capture of an alpha particle charged with 8,600,000 electron volts of energy...
...thousand miles to the east, in Katanga's little copper-rich capital of Elisabethville, the flame trees were out in glorious profusion alongside the spacious swimming pools of the Union Miniére officials, whose mines and refineries were working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing...
Another plan that should be under way soon is a blue-sky dream of William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.-made practical by cheap power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell...
...grade that blast furnaces cannot handle them, conditions them for the second step. This is a Udy-designed electric smelting furnace that finishes the job. The slag from the electric furnace can be put through a series of similar furnaces to draw off other metals such as chrome, copper, zinc and manganese. Thus, for the first time, a smeltery can work iron ore over with the same thoroughness that an oil refinery uses to squeeze every last product out of crude...
...which designs and builds steel mills, saw the possibilities and added its money to the development, in return for stock and the right to engineer and design plants using the Udy process. Shortly afterward, Frank W. Chambers, 52, a one-time Koppers executive and director of engineering at Kennecott Copper, took over as Stratmat president and set to work to make the process a commercial success...