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...justified, Russia and Georgia's blame game could have tragic consequences. During his recent visit to Tbilisi, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stressed that "there is no military option to [South Ossetia and Abkhazia's] reintegration [into Georgia]," and according to Georgian National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili, Biden told him that the U.S. is now carrying out "preventive diplomacy so the situation does not deteriorate." But if what Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin said on Wednesday is true and "no one can give us any guarantee that there will not be new aggression from Georgia," then the situation...
...identified was isolated last week. Ever since bearded Russian Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléeff classified the probable chemical elements in 1869 and arranged them in the periodic table, scientists have looked for a fifth member of the halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. Now the hypothetical eka-iodine (i.e., next to iodine) has finally been isolated in Bern, Switzerland. Thus Mendeléeff's table has now been realized, substantially as he predicted, with 92 elements (unless there are others heavier than uranium, which chemists think unlikely...
Discoverers of the method of isolating eka-iodine are Dr. Walter Minder, director of Bern's Radium Institute, and Dr. Alice Leigh-Smith, British student of the late great Mme. Curie. In a burst of international patriotism they named the new element anglohelvetium after their native lands, as Mme. Curie named polonium for her Poland...
...Fred Allison and his collaborators of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, applying a magneto-optic method of analysis, a thousand times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
...every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer of unknown substances. It can discern one trillionth of a part of a foreign substance in anything presented to its wrenching beam. Last week's triumph of Professor Allison was his ability to state that eka-cesium had six very similar forms or isotopes. No. 87 belongs to the base-forming family of elements which include lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium. Professor Allison, 50, asked scientists to call the element virginium. after the State of his birth. He asked them to call Element...