Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat the sub. It protected the coasts of England and France, was the first thing that greeted the A.E.F. transports as they headed into European ports. Although the British had 190 blimps in service, they lost only a scattered few, even though they were filled with highly inflammable hydrogen...
Died. Dr. Rudolf Schoenheimer, 43, eminent biochemist; a suicide by poison; in Yonkers, N.Y. With the aid of heavy hydrogen and heavy carbon he pioneered in tracing the uses living bodies make of the constituents of food...
...manufacturers last week agreed to drop mercury from the process of making felt hats. A substitute, hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid, will be used. Thus ends one of the oldest industrial hazards, which still causes dangerous nerve disorders among 10% of 22,000 U.S. hat workers. The agreement will soon be sent to various State Legislatures for enactment into...
...Medical Research to the annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia. It was a picture of the virus which causes the mosaic disease of tobacco plants, one of the largest molecules known to chemists. It is a rod-shaped structure, about 40,000,000 times the size of the hydrogen atom (basic unit of atomic and molecular weight). But even at this size it could be photographed only with the recently developed electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28), which by using electron beams instead of light can magnify images 50 times greater than the best light microscopes...
...green color imparted to diamonds by an hour of cyclotron bombardment with deuterons, heavy hydrogen ions, is very much like that characteristic of the occasional diamonds exposed to radium rays, Dr. Berman said...