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Word: hydrogenating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse than Limburger cheese. Able students were odoriferously rewarded. The jar from which they drew their papers had been fragrantly scented with attar of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Marks by Smell | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...short years ago mathematical builders of the universe got along with two fundamental particles, the proton and the electron. The proton was the nucleus of the simplest atom, hydrogen. It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram. The electron, which in the hydrogen atom throbbed alone around the nuclear proton, had a negative charge matching the proton's positive charge and its mass was 1,847 times less than that of the other particle. The more complex atoms of other elements were constructed from various combinations of electrons and protons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Symmetry | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Hydrogen Discoveries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urey, '34 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Speaks at Fogg | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

Authorities state that his discoveries in the field of hydrogen have revolutionized the progress of research in chemistry, physics, and biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urey, '34 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Speaks at Fogg | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

...stated that American science has increased a great deal in recent years, while most of the eminent German scientists had left that country. Among the greatest recent discoveries in this country are the laboratory production of heavy hydrogen and the positive electron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROWTHER CLAIMS U.S. MINDS MORE PROBING | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

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