Word: hydrogenic
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...exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors. Tipsters were insisting that U.S. scientists are working on "the hydrogen bomb." The rumors started when Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, told a television audience that the U.S. was trying to make a bomb i ,000 times as powerful as the one used at Hiroshima...
...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...
...engaged "in oceanographic research," they were moving unobtrusively as seals through Arctic waters north and west of the Soviet base at Murmansk. One evening, just after the Cochino and Tusk rendezvoused off Norway's North Cape, the mission came to a sudden end. An explosion, apparently caused by hydrogen from storage batteries, rumbled in the Cochino's vitals...
White Worms. One instrument, the spectroheliograph, takes pictures of the sun in the light that comes from single elements, such as hydrogen or calcium. The instrument has recently been improved to the point where it can take motion pictures (spectroheliokinemato-grams) which show the sun covered with patches, streaks and mottlings, most of them in motion. The pattern of the mottled background often changes completely in 15 minutes. "Motion pictures of the surface," says Dr. Menzel, "present a sort of 'crawly' appearance-like white worms in a pile of carrion...
...supply of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the "synthesis gas" used in converting coal to gasoline or diesel...