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...water have been devised at the Bureau of Standards, at University of California, by Dr. Urey himself. It is being made at Penn State, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, scores of other institutions in the U. S. and abroad. Dr. Urey's first cost of $150 per gram has dropped to $15 (about $75,000 per gallon). Princeton makes pure D20, estimates the cost at only $5 per gram. Ninety-five percent pure heavy water is available commercially at $20 per gram...
...glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets the two-gram weight which provides all the energy needed by the big pendulum...
...year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined the vitamin's constitution, and in August he, and Swiss chemists in Zurich. independently synthesized Vitamin C from a ketonaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. Now the pure substance is produced as colorless crystals in Swiss and British laboratories at 3¢ per gram...
...physics that electric current is a flow of matter having mass. A current of one ampere is a flow of 6,281 billion billion electrons per second past a given point. An electron is a particle of matter weighing 0.8999 billionths of a billionth of a billionth of a gram. But was electric current tangible...
...founded in 1912. lecturing at the Sorbonne, writing treatises and books. Then there were the honors which had been showered on her as on no other woman of her time-the Nobel Prize awarded to her, her husband and Becquerel in 1903, to her alone in 1911; the gram of radium presented to her by President Harding in 1921 in behalf of U. S. admirers; the $50,000 given her by President Hoover in 1929. But modest Mme Curie always turned away from such honors, such gifts. At her bedside last week were her daughters-Eve, the musician, Irene...