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Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...
...offense and defense" is total struggle. Chiang's occasionally inept translators render it as "total war," but from the context it is obvious that this is not what he means. On the contrary: the West's position is rendered too cumbersome, too defensive by its preoccupation with hydrogen war. Russia wants the West to think "that if there is going to be no nuclear war, there is not going to be any kind...
Exciting Future. The most exciting new use for boron is in exotic fuels (TIME, April 1), in which it is joined with hydrogen or other elements to generate infinitely greater power with less volume than present fuels.* The U.S. Defense Department has already invested $100 million in high-energy fuel development. U.S. Borax & Chemical is negotiating with top chemical firms to commit part of its borax production (70% of U.S. output) to making high-energy fuels. Should boron become the key element in the fuels of the future, the industry estimates that demand for borax, which has already doubled...
...Boron's principal value in high-energy fuels is its ability to bind hydrogen into a liquid or solid form, thus harness hydrogen's energy (52,000 B.T.U. per Ib. v. 18,500 for kerosene...
Both the U.S. and Britain are apparently keeping their large test bombs as clean as possible, presumably by increasing the proportion of energy that comes from nuclear fusion (hydrogen) reactions. This does not mean, however, that clean bombs will take the global threat out of nuclear...