Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yerkes Observatory, told of discerning by spectroscopic observation what seemed to be furious hurricanes in the atmosphere of some stars. On one hitherto inconspicuous star the wind seemed to be blowing at the rate of 144,000 m.p.h. Dr. Struve added that, despite the surface turbulence visible in hydrogen photographs, the sun's atmosphere is practically windless...
...University of California's Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence has accomplished atomic disintegration by whirling his bullets (deutons, or heavy hydrogen nuclei) with a magnet as fast as 2,000,000 volts would have driven them (TIME, July...
...years ago Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards discovered a heavy hydrogen in liquid hydrogen distilled at 466° below zero Fahrenheit. Its atomic weight was 2.0136. Later Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California following a method devised by the Bureau of Standards' Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, produced 99.5% pure heavy hydrogen. Water containing this heavy hydrogen kills guppy fish, tadpoles, worms. Probably it is poisonous...
Last week two members of Dean Lewis' staff-Professor W. M. Latimer and Dr. Herbert A. Young-found in some of the Dean's heavy hydrogen the third type which theories of physicists predicted. Its atomic weight is approximately...
...recent, rapid discoveries of particles in the atom have sent physicists back to their Greek dictionaries. Hydrogen No.1 (most common) is beginning to be called protium, Hydrogen No. 2 deuterium. Hydrogen No. 3 will therefore have to be tritium. Protium's nucleus is the proton, deuterium's the denton, and tritium's (probably) the triton. After them, in Nature's system of elements, comes helium (atomic weight approximately 4). The helium atom's nucleus is the alpha particle which, in the full round of substances, again appears during the disintegration of the heaviest...