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...other forms of life on earth−are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. "All of chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars," says Astrophysicist Patrick Thaddeus of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. "With the exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear reactions within stars...
What happened was that the Crimson racquetmen engaged in their own version of guerilla warfare and defeated the Cadets in a 9-0 shellacking, which usually occurs when nine hydrogen bombs line up against an equal number of water pistols...
...Russians "can turn these things out like Mexican fritters," as one Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly one of the warheads was exploded underground before a U.S.-Soviet ban on such testing of bombs of more than 150 kilotons went into effect this year...
...Pauling-who has since won the Nobel chemistry and peace prizes-explain how boron compounds were bound together chemically. Intrigued by what seemed an incomplete explanation, he used Pauling's own techniques to study the compounds further. He discovered that boranes, the complex chemicals that combine boron and hydrogen molecules, were, bonded differently from other chemicals. That discovery led to his finding that borane molecules were polyhedral, or many sided, and to a new understanding of how a host of new chemical compounds could be constructed...
Lipscomb began studying the interactions between boron and hydrogen in the early '50s. Using a technique known as X-ray crystallography, he determined the structure of molecules containing these atoms (called boranes or boron hydrides) and went on to establish a sound theoretical basis for that structure...