Word: emit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also done work on how atoms emit light and how energy escapes from...
...Strauss, could not be controlled, but would decrease steadily according to the "half-life" of the radioactive material. But such a "storage battery" might have one big advantage. It would not give off, necessarily, the dangerous neutrons and penetrating gamma rays which leak from atomic piles. Some active isotopes emit only radiations that can be stopped by comparatively thin shielding. There might be no deadly byproducts, either, to endanger the neighborhood...
Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...
...quilt thrown over a slept-in bed," summer covers the cemetery of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros with plaids of buttercups, poppies and bluebells. Millions of birds and clouds of mosquitoes take to the air; and the warmed glaciers, calving with "that large utterance of the early Gods," emit the drifting icebergs which plague the waters of the North Atlantic...
Ordinary lamps emit light from a considerable area, usually a glowing coil of tungsten wire. This makes shadows fuzzy, causes all sorts of trouble in optical instruments. Scientists have long yearned for a convenient, cool "point source" of light. Now, according to Western Union, they...