Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that temperature was far lower than the 6,000º C. on the sun's sizzling surface. Last week Chemist Robert Browning Sosman of U. S. Steel Corp., announced that by extending the principle of the magnifying glass he was able to capture half of the sun's 6,000º heat. With a big specially-built heliostat (reflector) he reflected sunlight on a focusing mirror; the mirror concentrated the rays, focused them on a piece of zirconium oxide, which melts at 1960º C. The zirconium oxide was liquefied. Chemist Sosman estimated he had produced a temperature of 3,000º...
...Sosman expected his sun-heat to prove better than combustion or electric-resistance heating for laboratory work at high temperatures...
...second heat of a series of relay races held yesterday afternoon in the Briggs Cage a plucky Freshman quartet forged ahead, and reported a time which beat the best efforts of six House teams by a second...
...best time for eight laps around the cage, was made when the first year men finished a few strides ahead of their Dunster and Rambler opponents. Their time was 2 minutes 36 1-2 seconds, and was some seconds better than that of Adams House, winner of the first heat...
...Transfer of Heat," Professor Black, Jefferson Physical...