Word: gamma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy can now prevent measles epidemics with a blood substance called gamma globulin. Last week this news spotlighted Harvard Medical School's unique Department of Physical Chemistry, where gamma-globulin extraction was perfected...
...Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 31 Beta Phi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Phi, Gamma* Phi Beta, Delta, Delta, Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega...
Second biggest market for radium-to which advertising is now addressed-is only four or five years old. It is radiography, i.e., inspecting the insides of metals, weldings, castings, molds by taking photographs with radiation of smaller wave length than light's. The gamma rays which radium gives off can penetrate eleven inches of steel; X-rays can get through but six. (X-rays have until now dominated this field...
Long found time to mix sports and studies being active as a member of both the Varsity basketball and baseball teams. His other school activities included membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta and the Sphinx Club, an upperclassmen's Honorary Society...
...tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which are one of the three types of radiation naturally given off by radium; or 2) Directed at a metal target, battering from it X-rays which are much more penetrating than radium's gamma rays. The betatron can produce as much radiation as over 1,000 grams of radium (world's supply: 750 grams...