Word: droplet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alerted by the Smithsonian's announcement last week, Astronomer Richard Walker of the Naval Observatory's Flagstaff station examined Saturn photographs that he had taken on the night of December 18. On four of his plates he found what looked like a tiny droplet superimposed on the edge-on rings. The confirmation of the discovery will entitle Dollfus to name the new moon. If he abides by tradition established in identifying Saturn's moons, he will pick the name of a mythological character associated with Saturn, a Roman god of agriculture...
Bizarre Products. To prepare solids for microencapsulation, N.C.R. scientists grind and filter them down to particles of the desired size. Liquids are suspended in droplet form in other liquids-like salad oil in water-and the mixture is run through an industrial blender that breaks the droplets down into still smaller sizes. The tiny particles or droplets are then placed in a solution of coating material, which congeals around them when the temperature, acidity or concentration of the solution is changed-forming capsules as small as one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch in diameter...
...surface man," which means that he covered large areas, guided by reason, tradition and literary clues, and learned what he could from surface finds. The "digger" school deplores this approach as super ficial. Nothing counts, say the diggers, until the careful, laborious toil of exca vation has extracted every droplet of evidence. To the strict diggers, the edu cated estimates of the surface men are all too fallible. The balanced truth is that each method has advantages, de pending on the nature of the country and the sites...