Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning to the Houses, the Committee viewed the 25-year-old experiment as a definite success. "We are aware of the official opinion that the Houses are over-crowded and that an important element of 'gracious living' has disappeared on that account. But we must report that on this score the undergraduates appear a good deal less concerned than the faculty...
...elements were formed when neutrons from the explosion hit atoms of uranium 238 and were captured by its nucleus. In the case of Element 99, the U-238 captured 15 neutrons and emitted seven beta particles (electrons). Each beta particle emitted meant that a captured neutron had changed into a proton. So the U-238, which had 92 protons and 146 neutrons, turned into Element 99 with 99 protons and 154 neutrons. To form Element 100 (100 protons and 155 neutrons), the U-238 captured 17 neutrons and lost eight beta particles. The scientists suggested that Element 99 be named...
Even heavier elements can probably be made by the neutron-fattening process or found in bomb debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...
...dial on the instrument board. The same radio pulses are simultaneously performing a more complicated process. To determine direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through a revolving (15 revolutions per second) antenna system that relies on two concentric cylindrical rings, one mounted with a single rod-shaped element, the other fitted with nine rods. Whirling around the antenna core, these rods, set at different modulations, "tag" (modulate) the signals as they go out. Every time the inner rod passes "zero" (north), a regulating signal is transmitted. In a sense, this signal is Tacan's compass needle...
...36th annual assembly of the American Association of Women Ministers. "Jesus, God incarnate, is so different from others who told of God and explain God because he brought forth not the masculine traits of divinity but . . . the feminine traits . . . What the world needs is an understanding of ... the feminine element...