Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...
...case of a "nominal" (Nagasaki-type) atomic bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...
...cause is a simple optical principle. The burning effect of the bomb's heat on exposed skin diminishes as the square of the distance (twice as far away, it is one-fourth as strong). But the eye is a lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that...
This week Betty will have some new products to display. One is a range which will preserve even the newest bride from cooking disasters. An "electronic-eye" thermostat, controlled by the heat of the cooking pan, automatically turns off the burner when the water boils away or the food begins to scorch. Westinghouse's new refrigerator has a "magic door" which pops open at a finger touch...
...poor student's test paper Dr. Heckmann and a couple of scientists sharpened their pencils and set to work on Herr Bueren's theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes in the sun's shell, opening...