Word: hydrogenized
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...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...
...water will be taken in the combined form of hydrogen peroxide, one molecule of which can be very readily split up into one molecule of water and half a molecule of oxygen. . . . Water will of course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...