Word: hydrogenized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Blue Hill's original "cigar-box" radiosonde recorder was invented by Karl O. Lange in 1936, dozens of ascents have been made in the stratosphere, as high as 79,000 feet. The "cigar-box" is drawn up into the heights by a large hydrogen balloon...
...would ever fail," inquired the program notes, "to understand the vibrations of hydrogen, if he had felt them while dancing with a beautiful living atom in his arms? Who would ever forget the position of the bonds in benzene if he had played the part of a carbon atom whirling around with lovely hands holding him on either side...
...unit is approximately the weight of the hydrogen atom (or, precisely, 1/16 the weight of the oxygen atom...
...lesser interest, for a long time after he dies. Astrophysicists, who believe the solar star-stuff has been hot for billions of years and will be so for billions of years more, have long cudgeled their brains for a reason why. Most favored of recent theories is that hydrogen is the fuel. It is known that the sun does not "burn" hydrogen, in the sense of releasing stored chemical energy as from coal; it physically changes fragments of hydrogen atoms directly into radiation. But the question remains: Just what atomic processes enable the hydrogen to be utilized as fuel...
...down to figure out what atomic reactions would occur often enough to be important in the sun's energy economy, yet not so often as to use up the supply of some important ingredient in a hurry. He found that, at temperatures above 15,000,000° C., hydrogen atoms would attack carbon. The carbon atom would disappear for a while, but after a further series of reactions in which three more hydrogen atoms would be used up, the carbon would reappear, ready to be used again. Thus carbon, though not depleted itself, is the agent that annihilates hydrogen...