Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion-a-year conventional power market, 50 to 60 firms plan to make reactor equipment. AEC expects few of them to survive. Said the commission's Reactor Development Director W. Kenneth Davis: "During the next few years the business will not support 50 companies or even a fraction of them. We could have a few good companies or a lot of mediocre or bad ones. I favor a few good ones...
After surging up a powerful 23% in two years, Canada's gross national product is beginning to falter. G.N.P. for the second quarter of 1957 was just even with the first-quarter rate in dollars (but down a fraction in real terms), and government economists think third-quarter figures will show a further fractional setback. The leveling off of Canada's long-lived boom last week sent jitters from Toronto's Bay Street to Alberta's unseasonably snowbound prairies...
...last week that the nation faces new epidemics in the next eight to ten weeks in areas not hitherto stricken. After that, he hoped, "we will be going down hill." So far, with nearly 400 deaths attributed to Asian flu and its complications, the death rate is a minute fraction...
...said DuBridge, the number of youngsters old enough to enter college will be up 75% to 4,000,000. "The fraction of these youngsters who wish to enter college is also rising, so that enrollments in the nation as a whole will surely be doubled . . . We must not only double the capacity in 15 years of a plant that we have taken 300 years to build, but we must pay for it in 1957 dollars, not 1857 dollars. It will take $1 billion a year for the next 15 years just to build the necessary buildings . . . And the annual operating...
...known, both are working on similar lines, and so are the Russians. The basic problem in controlled fusion is to heat the material, usually deuterium, so hot that its nuclei will combine. This temperature is something like 100 million degrees C., and it must be held for an appreciable fraction of a second while the reaction takes place. Since all known materials turn into vapor at a few thousand degrees, the hot deuterium cannot be contained in any ordinary pressure vessel...