Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool table lie 15 round balls. They are closely packed into an equal-sided triangle, five balls to a side. The pack of balls represents any form of matter you please?a crystal of iron, a tum- bler of water, a flask of gas. The balls are atoms or molecules. They are all wobbling very, very fast, and in every direction. You cannot tell which ball is where at any instant. But you, pretending to be a mathematical physicist like Professor Einstein or Professor Raman, can calculate the average place of the average ball at any instant. That is almost...
...years ago Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago aimed some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
...Professor Compton's experiments, the x-rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...
...none of the reader's business. What would you do upon meeting a long lost friend on a beautiful, balmy Friday afternoon with all Saturday and Sunday before you to rest. If this doesn't bring it home, look at the Orientals' Prognostications. Then all will be shimmering crystal...
...Secretary of Agriculture; the son of the Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere was furnished by the food (fried chicken, beaten biscuit) and entertainment (Tapdancer Bill Robinson). Guests numbered 300. Most spectacular Manhattan function was given, also in the Crystal...