Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good spectrum from the quasar and, like his colleagues Sandage and Greenstein, he was puzzled by the sight of unfamilar spectral lines. But after staring at the spectrum for six weeks, Schmidt had a wild, almost desperate thought. Three closely spaced spectral lines on his photographic plate resembled hydrogen lines. But they were not in the blue segment of the spectrum where they belonged: they were superimposed on the red portion instead. Could they actually be hydrogen lines that had shifted to longer wave lengths...
State of Shock. Acting on his hunch, Schmidt assumed that the lines he saw were really hydrogen lines. He measured the shift and calculated that 3C 273 was moving away at 15% of the speed of light, or about 28,000 miles per second. This meant, according to Hubble's law, that the quasar must be about 1.5 billion light-years from the earth, instead of being a faint, nearby star - as most astronomers had assumed...
...tail of flame, Saturn 1B burned for 2 min. 26 sec., at which point it was 35 miles up and moving at 5,400 m.p.h. Next came the tricky second stage, a single 225,000-lb.-thrust engine powered by an exotic combination of liquid oxygen (lox) and liquid hydrogen (LH2). While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin off into tiny globs; simply to feed the fuel from tank...
...budget reaches into every national nook and cranny. It concerns itself with appropriations for a nuclear aircraft carrier, for cancer research and free school milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion...
...best of acting companies might be able to touch off a dramatic explosion with this philosophical hydrogen. Manhattan's Lincoln Center troupe remains fireproof...