Word: hydrogenate
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...Libby's water clock will be based on the same principle as the carbon 14 calendar. Some ten miles high, in the stratosphere, cosmic rays stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...
Millions of miles away in space, says Harvard's Astronomer Donald H. Menzel, the sun revolves like a tremendous lawn sprinkler. From its seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...
Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...
...different in another way. Built and operated by the huge Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., it is the only commercial plant in the world that uses coal as a direct raw material for producing chemicals. By means of hydrogenation, a method of pulverizing coal and combining it with hydrogen under extreme pressure, it produces cheap hydrocarbons...
Saving Time. Hydrogenation of coal is not a Union Carbide invention; the Germans used a similar method to produce gasoline during World War II, and the U.S. Government is also using it at a synthetic liquid-fuel plant at Louisiana, Mo. (TIME, May 23, 1949). But Union Carbide is the first to build such a plant as a source of chemicals. After long research, it has succeeded in cutting the hydrogenation process from an hour to a few minutes, reducing the amount of high-cost hydrogen needed and boosting production of such chemicals as phenol (a base for plastics...