Word: cyclotron
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...partial answer to the question "Why smash atoms?" is obvious from this fact. Radium has long been used in the treatment of cancerous diseases, its chief disadvantage being its often prohibitive expense. The cyclotron can make a simple substance radio-active at comparatively small cost...
Situated in the middle of the floor of the Gordon McKay Physics Laboratory is a huge mountain of steel tanks, glass tubes, wires, and valves surrounded by a high picket fence. This is the famous cyclotron, known to the uninitiated as the atom smasher...
...Harvard cyclotron is one of the many atom smashing machines in this country and Europe. It was begun in 1937 under the direction of Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics, but was not completed until last fall...
...Harvard cyclotron has a power of 37 kilowatts, more than is used in most radio stations. A similar machine in California is capable of producing as much radiation as 700 grams of radium, which would cost tens of millions of dollars...
...cyclotron will uncover in the inner heart of matter. But no physicist doubted that it would unlock many a treasure house of secrets; and, more, show the way to new treasure houses now unsuspected...