Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept in uneasy check by elaborate control systems and cooled by liquid hydrogen with a temperature close to absolute zero. Last week it was given no cooling at all, and the controls that kept its reaction in check were arranged so they could be removed in a fraction of a second. Test Director Keith Boyer hoped that Kiwi would get hot enough to vaporize itself entirely...
Poison for Toads. The reactor itself was completely gone, its graphite moderator and several hundred pounds of uranium fuel turned to vapor by temperatures above 8,000°F., roughly the same as the surface of the sun. For a fraction of a second before it evaporated, the reactor had generated millions of times as much energy as Hoover...
...events and characters killed for lack of space, of people and relationships underdeveloped for lack of time is present in this Phoenix Theater presentation of the Tolstoy classic, but it has an evocative life that refuses to be smothered. Thanks to Ellis Rabb's inventive direction, a substantial fraction of the surge, scope and thematic intention of the novel comes over the footlights...
...could so many people possibly have been so deluded? "Nobody on the Republican side told them otherwise," said Welch. "'There were very few campaigners, even among the Conservatives, who took the trouble and had the courage to tell the people even a fraction of the truth...
...nation's college population will double in the next 15 years, the doctoral output of American universities will not keep pace. In addition, he said, "only about half of future doctor's degree recipients will find their way into teaching, and they will be no more than a fraction of the number needed...