Word: hydrogenate
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Britain's most sweeping peacetime reorganization calls for drastic overhauls in weapon research, air force techniques, and naval operations. With the hydrogen bomb in prospect, Britain intends to carry forth nuclear research, particularly in atomic missiles where she hopes to develop a "second generation" of rockets while receiving the presently less-advanced U.S. weapons already in production. They hope that this ground-to-air missile system will eventually replace R.A.F. manned fighters. On the seas, carrier task forces supported by light cruisers will comprise the fleet as the heavy cruisers are retired to the scrap pile...
...state exposed to attack to make sure that the bases which are set up for the purpose of attack be liquidated at once. No one can expect anything else. The blow which would be directed toward destroying the aggressor's bases would inevitably hit much greater areas. One hydrogen bomb [can destroy] a radius of up to several hundred kilometers. One might ask what would happen if several such bombs were used...
Fortunately, nature has provided a chemical element, boron, which can be forced with some difficulty to improve on carbon's performance. Boron has a high heat of combustion (25,000 B.T.U. per lb.), and it forms compounds that contain more energy-rich hydrogen than most hydrocarbons do. The heat of combustion of diborane (B2H6), for instance, is 31,000 B.T.U. per lb., almost twice as good as kerosene...
Cloud of Poison. But boron hydrides are bad actors. Besides being poisonous, they have a reputation for exploding spontaneously for no apparent reason. This disadvantage may have been overcome, but it is more likely that the best boron-containing fuels are compounds of boron with carbon, hydrogen and perhaps other elements. There is a long list of such compounds to choose from. A boron-carbon-hydrogen compound would not be quite so powerful as a straight boron hydride, but it might be a pleasanter playmate...
...hard time explaining photosynthesis, the action of chlorophyll, on which plant, animal and human life depends. They knew that chlorophyll by itself has no photosynthetic power. Only when it is contained in extremely small structures found in green leaves can it use the energy of light to release hydrogen from water, the first step in photosynthesis. The orderly pattern of the molecules in these bodies, say Drs. Melvin Calvin and Power B. Sogo of the University of California at Berkeley, is the key to the process...