Word: kerplunked
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only 30 such collisions occurred in all the 1,000,000 trails recorded by Professor Harkins...