Word: layers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives clues about the high atmosphere. The waves that make the 160-mile jump experience various vicissitudes. In the warm air near the earth they move fast. Then they slow down gradually as the air grows colder. Passing through the stratosphere (temp. - 70° F.) they hit a warmer layer of air 30 to 35 miles above the earth which turns them back down to the microphones...
...pursued by his boss's daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), an amateur student of psychiatry. Krasna has fleshed out the farce idea with a curious subplot about the law firm's efforts to keep a Chinese-American tenant out of a "restricted" apartment building. The result makes an odd layer cake composed" of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible...
...reaction discussed by the author uses deuterium (heavy hydrogen) packed into a layer around the uranium detonator. Deuterium atoms, which are given the comparatively low energy of 100,000 electron volts, says the article, will react with each other on collision, turning into helium 3 and a single free neutron. The products fly apart, with a speed equivalent to 3.3 million electron volts...
Inside its flat glass front is a layer of transparent material that conducts electricity. Behind this is a layer of a "photpconductor," i.e., a material that conducts electricity only when light is shining upon...
...photoconductor. A slender beam of electrons from an "electron gun" scans the rear side of the photo-conductor. When the electrons hit a brightly lighted area, a lot of them pass through. When they hit dark parts, only a few of them pass through. The transparent conducting layer collects the escaping electrons and passes them on in the form of a "video" current whose rapid fluctuations represent the light and shade of the picture. An ordinary television set turns the current into a copy of the scene which the Vidicon is viewing...