Word: hydrogenate
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...York Times reported yesterday that the new hydrogen bomb possessed by the United States is "large enough to destroy a city--any city...
...magnet is quiet, snoring softly, but in a ring-shaped vacuum chamber running around inside it, a dangerous, man-made genie throbs and thrashes. Out of an electric arc springs a swarm of protons (hydrogen nuclei). Powerful forces grab them and speed them down a channel toward the great machine. They sail into the chamber, and the magnet steers them in a circular orbit...
...ancestors of the bevatron, accelerators with less than a thousandth of its power, extracted from nature the information that told man how to build uranium and hydrogen bombs. The bevatron will strike far deeper into the atomic nucleus, where matter and energy lie closely twined together...
Scholarly Commissioner Smyth (the "Smyth Report," 1945), whose service dates from the start of the wartime atom bomb project, has seen atomic energy grow from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...ambitious studies-chemistry, physiology, geology, archeology, history, politics, literature, esthetics, philosophy, religion. The cultural scenery of the times flashes by as they careen along the road to knowledge. They are a little ashamed on discovering that "their own organism contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like the whites of eggs, hydrogen like gas lamps," but delighted to learn that "the tongue is the seat of taste, and the feeling of hunger resides in the stomach." Not complete imbeciles, they become suspicious of historians on reading that the Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes...