Word: granularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its facile, steel-tipped aluminum claw, which can be extended to 5 ft., Surveyor dug and photographed more trenches, helping to confirm its earlier finding that the soil at the surface in this area of the Ocean of Storms is dry and granular but has the cohesiveness of wet sand. By measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that operated the claw, JPL scientists determined that the surrounding surface has a bearing strength of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support the Apollo astronauts...
...molecule has a structure that a copper ion fits into neatly, like a key into a lock. But proteins are hard to handle and almost impossible to synthesize, so Bayer looked for simpler compounds that would do the same job. After many tries, he put together a black granular material that picks up copper and uranium only. When this "chelating agent" worked well in the laboratory with simulated sea water, Bayer took it to Naples, put it in a glass column and ran 100 liters (26.42 gal.) of real sea water through it. Then he flushed the chelating agent with...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
Waterville Valley--5-18, granular, thin spots, good...
Newbury, Mt. Sunapee--0 to 6 frozen granular base with bare spots, poor upper, fair lower...