Word: cyclotron
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...Cyclotron. For high-powered work, the cyclotron has had a basic flaw: at very high speeds it runs head on into relativity. In a cyclotron, nuclear bullets (such as deuterons-the nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom) are whirled around in a drum divided across the middle, like a halved round cheese. Each time a bullet crosses the gap between the drum halves, it gets an electrical kick, increasing its speed. Because of the bullet's great speed (it circles the drum in millionths of a second), accurate timing of the kick is all-important. But as the bullet...
Ground may to broken in the near future for the new Cyclotron Laboratory, and plans are being drawn up for a new huge science center to be located opposite Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory on Oxford Street. Memorial Hall, Stillman Infirmary, the Hygiene Building, and Gibbs Laboratory of inorganic chemistry are to be enlarged and renovated...
...Cyclotron Laboratory building will be located behind the Gordon MeKay Engineering Laboratory and will house the University's now cyclotron. The former cyclotron was used extensively during the war, both here and at the army's Los Almos, New Mexico, atomic bomb project. It has been given to the Army...
...stone, but do not think the result would be worth the effort. Last week, however, scientists at the University of California announced that they had transmuted gold into mercury-and turned a scientific profit. They did it by bombarding gold (atomic weight 197) with neutrons from the Berkeley cyclotron. Its atoms each absorbed one neutron, eventually turning into mercury...
What science needed was a one-isotope mercury. The cyclotron created it by transmutation. Gold has only one isotope; mercury made from it has only...