Word: hydrogenate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About five years ago came the "fusion" reaction. In this, an isotope of hydrogen (either deuterium, H2, or tritium, H3) was forced by extreme high temperature to "fuse" into helium with an enormous release of energy. The scientists got the required high temperature by exploding a conventional fission bomb as a detonator. With this development of fusion-which has never been officially described-the number of reactive nuclear ingredients rose to at least...
...assistant vice president for nuclear planning went Dr. Frederic de Hoffmann, 30, who joined the Los Alamos group fresh out of Harvard University at 20, rose to be Dr. Edward Teller's first deputy in work on the hydrogen bomb (TIME, March 7). As consultants, Convair added a blue-ribbon panel of 14 experts. Among them: Dr. Teller, now professor of physics at the University of California; Dr. Hans Bethe, first to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions; Dr. Theodore von Kármán, who developed Jato, later served as chief scientific adviser to the Air Force; Massachusetts...
...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...
...first time in the history of America, we are fighting with our backs to the wall," he thundered. "We are feeling fear. We're all worried about the hydrogen bomb." When such an attack does come, "the first target is New York City!" The New Yorkers - middleaged, mostly female and intensely quiet - shifted uneasily. They had come to hear Billy celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Word of Life Hour (Saturdays, 7:30 E.S.T., ABC), and they had filled the Garden well before the meeting began. In the street outside, another crowd of several thousand listened via loudspeakers, while...
Gold is a principal proponent of "continuous creation." He does not believe that the universe came into being suddenly at some remote moment in the past. Instead, he thinks that matter is still being created. It "appears" continuously in the form of single hydrogen atoms out in the empty reaches between the galaxies. At first the lonely atoms form a very thin gas; they draw together by gravitational attraction. At last, after billions of years, the atoms gather into stars, and the stars into galaxies...