Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power to produce the snooper's stream of neutrons comes from a simple gasoline engine that runs a primitive type of particle accelerator. A beam of deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) particles emitted by the generator is directed against deuterium absorbed in a titanium target. As the deuterium particles collide, they release neutrons that are channeled into a beam that can cover a two-square-foot area of ground. The entire device, including the recording instruments, is small and light enough to be carried in the back of a Jeep. It has already been given trials in the field...
Radiation from charged pairs of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Lilley said, could be especially significant. Finding evidence of this material could indicate that vast quantities of organic compounds are being formed naturally in space. So far, however, astronomers have been unable to detect such radiation...
...probes," says Lovell. "It just so happens that this particular form of Russian and American space work fits into our normal research problems." The rest of Jodrell Bank's work is done on pure astronomical research -measuring the angular diameter of quasars and other radio sources, determining the hydrogen content of galaxies, pinpointing the location of radio sources by lunar occultation, mapping the Milky Way. Lovell's particular speciality is studying small flare stars that periodically increase in luminosity...
...upon to comment on all significant missions and probes. He obviously enjoys his role of space expert and he has been outspokenly frank-handing out unreserved praise for both Russian and U.S. space achievements while bluntly criticizing what he considers misguided efforts. In 1962 he violently opposed the U.S. hydrogen-bomb explosion in space over the Pacific, and has spoken out against a communications experiment that placed a band of metallic needles in orbit. In both cases he was convinced that the shots endangered other scientific projects and observations. When a Soviet space probe actually hit Venus last month...
...Hydrogen & Carbon. To those who do formulate a God, he seems to be everything from a celestial gas to a kind of invisible honorary president "out there" in space, well beyond range of the astronauts. A young Washington scientist suggests that "God, if anything, is hydrogen and carbon. Then again, he might be thermonuclear fission, since that's what makes life on this planet possible." To a streetwalker in Tel Aviv...