Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chamber was severely damaged in an explosion at the CEA experimental hall July 5 while it was being filled with liquid hydrogen for the first time. It is now being rebuilt in a converted warehouse in Billerica, 25 miles north of Boston. Since hydrogen from the chamber is believed to have triggered the explosion, CEA staff members decided two weeks ago that it would have to be housed in a separate building -- where an accident could be easily controlled -- or not be used...
Many CEA scientists now believe the explosion was touched up by liquid hydrogen which spilled while being fed into the experimental hall's bubble chamber. The CEA is considering requesting funds for a separate bubble chamber building on the grounds so that an accident would be much less destructive there than in the present hall. The chamber is now being re-assembled but will not be used by the Harvard-M.I.T. experimenters who being work in November...
Present evidence indicates that it will be easier to prevent an explosion in the future if the bubble chamber is housed separately, Collins said. "Keeping hydrogen from spilling will be a simple matter," he explained. "That's not the point. The problem is, if a foolish thing like that does happens, can we keep it from causing a serious explosion? In a separate building, I think...
...through the experimental hall of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, injuring eight Harvard and M.I.T. scientists and technicians and causing at least $1 million in damage. The explosion blew the roof off the circular experimental hall and severely damaged the bubble chamber then being filled with 100 gallons of liquid hydrogen...
JULY 7--Preliminary investigation indicates that 95 gallons of liquid hydrogen in the bubble chamber were expelled safely and that hydrogen in the chamber filling system may have caused the explosion...