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Stanley thus gave a crystal-clear answer to the question: What is TMV? Electron micrographs showed thin rod-shaped crystals, little more than a hundred-thousandth of an inch long. This answer raised an intriguing new question. Is a virus animate or inanimate, living or dead, animal or mineral? Dr. Stanley's way out of the dilemma is to broaden the definition of "living'' to include any particles that are capable of reproducing or replicating themselves. That covers viruses...
There are lips in pistol And mist in times, Cats in crystal, And mice in chimes...
...practice, smoothly polished, spherically tipped diamond is the actual groove runner (or, if you have weak floors, groove hopper). It is connected to a control rod, or "stylus arm" which wiggles along with its maneuverings. This stylus arm is in turn either connected to a crystal against which it vibrates, causing voltages to appear across it, or it in some way moves a coil through a magnetic field, cutting lines of force, and again causing voltages to arise...
...first type of cartridge--in which the stylus arm, or shank, presses on a crystal--is called the "ceramic" type. Because they are consistently prone to distortions of the true signal and because they sually entail the necessitty of higher stylus pressures, ceramic cartridges are not popularly used today in custom audio circles, and must of our cartridges employ the electrically less efficient magnetic principle...
...actual maser in use on the radio telescope at the University's Harvard, Mass., Observatory is contained in a box about four feet long and one foot wide and deep. The crystal that is the heart of the maser is a synthetic ruby placed between the two poles of a magnet and kept in a both of liquid helium at a temperature about two degrees above absolute zero(--491* Fahrenheit...