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...first serious project with the new antenna was begun early this past summer. Dennis N. Downes '65 and Michael P. Hughes, Dr. Maxwell's research associate at the station, observed the passage of the solar corona in front of the Crab Nebula. In late June the Crab Nebula, the gaseous remnants of a star which exploded in 1054, was in the daytime sky near...
...Queen sailed on its last voyage, testified that leaks occurred regularly in spaces beneath and at the sides of the four big sulphur tanks. Recurring fires in those places had become so commonplace that the ship's officers even gave up sounding the fire alarm. Emitting a gaseous, rotten-egg stink, the fires burned on and on. When the flames were extinguished, the sulphur cooled, hardened, and caked at the ship's pumps, corroded electrical equipment, and on at least one occasion shorted out the main generator...
...rich chords of radio waves, is not a chief attraction. The astronomers' keenest interest is focused on much more distant space, from which the waves bring news of strange occurrences. The third strongest single source in the sky is a famous astronomical object, the Crab Nebula, the turbulent, gaseous wreck of a star that turned into a supernova and blew itself to shreds on July 11, 1054 A.D.-an event that was duly recorded by Chinese astronomers. After 908 years, the Crab's gases are still churning violently, and as the electrons that they contain move through magnetic...
...molecules pick up electric charges, they respond to electrical forces and are whisked through a charged grid at a predetermined speed. After traveling a short distance, they hit molecules of vaporized benzene (C6H6) and stick to them, forming nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2). The hydrogen atoms left out of the combination form gaseous hydrogen...
...When neutrons from the reactor hit uranium atoms in the capsule, they caused the atoms to fission, or split. The atomic fragments shot apart with enormous energy (200 million electron volts per fission), splintering ammonia molecules and knocking them in every direction. The fragments recombined at once. Some formed gaseous hydrogen (H2) or nitrogen (N2). But about half the ammonia that reacted formed the much-desired hydrazine (N2H4...