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Backbone of Stanford's linear accelerator (called SLAC) is a 10,000-ft.-long, 4-in.-diameter copper tube housed in a concrete tunnel and buried 25 ft. underground to protect scientists and any bystanders from its fierce radiation. At one end, an electron beam is generated in much the same manner as the beam inside a home TV picture tube. Injected into a nickel-size hole that runs the length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes...
...Other steel consumers have moved in where autos used to reign. Example: Railroads plan to build 90,-000 new freight cars this year, against about 65,000 in 1965. In smaller measure, the steel industry is benefiting from an all-out drive to use its products as substitutes for copper, in everything from plumbing to refrigerator tubing. Reason: copper prices have been driven sky-high by copper-rich countries, such as Chile and Zambia, cashing in on a world shortage...
...vitamins are A, D, E, C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), Niacin, B6, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and B12. The minerals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine and copper...
Even when he struck the jackpot with his half-dozen world-famous uranium mines, two copper mines and an iron mine, he found it impossible to raise production capital in the States; the bulk of it came from Europe...
...years ago, Australia had to import all of its aluminum; until six years ago, iron-ore exports were forbidden because the government believed there was only enough to supply domestic needs for a generation. All that negative thinking has been swept away by recent discoveries of natural gas, bauxite, copper, manganese, silver, uranium, tin, nickel, zinc and lead. Coal exports have jumped from $26 million in 1962 to $68 million...