Word: electronized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
Tritium is the big brother of the hydrogen family. Ordinary hydrogen has one lone proton in its nucleus with an electron circling around it. Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus. Tritium (heavy heavy hydrogen) has one proton and two neutrons. It is feebly radioactive, with a half-life of about twelve years. Drs. Libby and Grosse detected it through its radiation in samples of heavy (deuterium-containing) water. Its presence in heavy water had been suspected for some time, but not conclusively proved...
...inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...than had been achieved before, and he needed an almost perfectly motionless base on which to stand it. The microscope was built in 1931, with various refinements added since, and is known as the Graton-Dune precision micro-camera. It gives a real magnification of 6,000 to 1. Electron microscopes, developed about the same time, give real magnifications up to 50,000 or 100,000 by using enlargements of negatives. This microscope disproved an old law concerning the limit of magnification of light instruments, and also showed that the limits of focus of a microscope are considerably smaller than...
Like stars, the point sources twinkle-in the radio sense. Two identical receivers a short distance apart do not pick them up with equal brilliance. The "twinkle" is supposed to be due to electron clouds in space that deflect the radio waves...