Word: hydrogenic
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...such temperatures hydrogen atoms are whipped up to speeds around 100 miles per second. A hot gob of sun-matter would thus tend to expand and dissipate into a formless cloud. Hopeful theory was that this tendency would be counteracted by rapid cooling in open space...
Carburization turns a soft iron wire into steel in one minute. The wire is heated in a hydrogen atmosphere to prevent oxidation. The hydrogen, bubbling through alcohol, picks up alcohol vapor. This vapor contains carbon, which inter acts with the hot iron to make it steel. The Westinghouse people devised this exhibit to show the new importance of controlled atmospheres in hardening commercial steel parts...
...consequence not of absolute motion but of relative motion-that is, of the clock's motion relative to a hypothetical observer. For a long time there was no experimental confirmation of the Larmor-Lorentz-Fitzgerald slowdown. Then, about two years ago, Dr. Ives used glowing particles of hydrogen gas as "atomic clocks," showed that their rate of oscillation slows down when the particles themselves are speeded up to velocities around 1,000 miles a second (TIME, May 9, 1938). The experiment was spectacular but the conclusion ambiguous. Was the slowdown a result of absolute motion, or of relativistic motion...
...Bethe figured out that the shape of the deuteron (nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom) should not be spherical but oval like a football-which agreed with the experimental findings of Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi & associates at Columbia. Year ago Dr. Bethe was hailed by astrophysicists for figuring out that carbon must be the stuff that enables the sun to turn fragments of hydrogen atoms into sunshine (TIME, Feb. 27). Lately he has been working on the function in the atom's nucleus of a particle called the "mesotron," which weighs about 200 times as much as an electron...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...