Word: hydrogenate
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...most exciting current subject in applied physics is "controlled fusion," i.e., getting usable energy out of the nuclear reactions that make H-bombs explode. Industrialists looking forward to atomic power are just as interested in fusion as physicists are. If controlled power can be extracted from hydrogen or other light elements, it may prove much cheaper than power from uranium...
...countries know about the pinch effect, but their work with it has been minor, or is still secret. According to Kurchatov, the Russians made a big effort and got some remarkable results. By sending very heavy currents in short pulses through tubes containing such gases as deuterium (heavy hydrogen), they concentrated the gas in the center of the tube and held it there for an appreciable instant, while its temperature rose toward...
...Harvard University dedicated a new radio telescope at the Agassiz Station of the Harvard Observatory, 25 miles west of Cambridge. The telescope's 60-ft. "dish" antenna is steerable (it points anywhere) and is specially designed to pick up 21-cm. radio waves from the great clouds of hydrogen that clutter the universe...
...waves were first observed at Harvard five years ago by Drs. Harold I. Ewen and Edward M. Purcell, and they have proved wonderfully useful in showing up features of the universe invisible to telescopes using light. The hydrogen clouds are everywhere, streaming along the spiral arms of the galaxy, clustered thickly in the Milky Way. An average cloud may be 25 light years (150 trillion miles) in diameter and weigh 100 times as much...
...hydrogen clouds are moving, as they generally are, the radio waves that come from them are slightly longer or shorter than the standard 21 cm. This difference allows radio astronomers to measure the speed of the clouds. It also allows them to "see through" a cloud that is hiding more interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision...