Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than anything known on earth. This remarkable stuff weighs thousands of pounds per cubic inch. The nova's degenerate core is extremely hot, but its surface is covered with a thin, rather cool layer of normal matter. The other star of each pair is all normal matter, mostly hydrogen, and just about the same weight and size as the sun. In many cases, Dr. Kraft is sure the two stars are almost in contact, the white dwarf dancing just above the surface of its big, fluffy partner...
...larger star whirls through its tight orbit, it spins hydrogen off its surface. Some of this gas is attracted by the white dwarf's intense gravitation. When the layer thickens, some of the hydrogen is forced down into contact with the star's degenerate core, which is as hot as the heart of an exploding H-bomb. Suddenly a nuclear reaction races through the hydrogen, turning it into helium and releasing a vast amount of energy. The little dwarf star flares up. many times brighter than its great partner. Once the crisis is over the stars waltz peacefully...
...signal ever comes, each Minuteman will blast out of its silo and, carrying a hydrogen warhead with over 50 times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb, set out for a target up to 6,300 miles away. That prospect should make any potential aggressor think twice before launching an attack against...
...what happens to the energy lost in photon-photon collisions? Dr. Ward does not favor the suggestion that the lost energy turns into the radio waves that permeate space. He prefers the more startling notion that the energy is transformed, in some unexplained manner, into fresh, new hydrogen that provides an eternal source of nuclear fuel for the hydrogen-burning stars...
...west coast noted that it was not maintaining its proper attitude. Instead of pointing its blunt forward end steadily 34 degrees above the horizontal, it was veering erratically. The stations at Woomera, in south-central Australia, and at Hawaii, confirmed Muchea's report. Apparently one of the hydrogen-peroxide jets that controlled the capsule's attitude in space had failed to close...