Word: embeddedness
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Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean...
The wonder was that no one had thought of it before. Its originator (an engineer) got the idea when an accidental explosion embedded oil droplets in a victim's flesh without marking his skin. The implement was later perfected by a group at R. P. Scherfer Corp., Detroit.
Essentially, the tame bomb is a "pile" like the original uranium pile at the University of Chicago. But uranium needs slow-moving neutrons to make its atoms split. Thus, a uranium pile is made up of small rods of uranium embedded in a large mass of graphite. Plutonium is different...
When he was ten a wealthy woman on San Francisco's Pacific Avenue began to finance his training. He made the local circuit: recitals in private homes, luncheon, solos, a formal recital in Veterans' Auditorium. In 1937 he was ready for Manhattan and Town Hall-or thought he...
The furnace can be used as a space heater, embedded in a wall between two rooms to heat both, or stuck on a closet shelf to heat two or more rooms through short ducts. Two such units, said Stewart-Warner President James S. Knowlson, can heat the average six-room...