Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wires. The current sent a stream of electrons speeding from one of the wires, the cathode. They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path of the rays, the metal became very hot. It also cast a sharp shadow on the wall of the tube. The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists...
...joined three of his vacuum tubes in tandem and in the connecting necks placed hollow metal cylinders. From a tungsten filament cathode in the first tube, 300,000 volts of electricity shot cathode rays into the first metal cylinder, which functioned as anode to the first and cathode to the second. There 300,000 more volts kicked the speeding electrons into the next similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle...
...penetrating gamma rays might be deflected from a metal target, as in simple x-ray tubes, and reveal unknown properties of bodies...
...Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Tokyo Advertiser--is this an anniversary full of gratification. In the very forefront of well-wishers is the college journalist, who sees in this long and distinguished record a vindication of four years novitiate on the altar of the god whose form is of type metal...
...diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter for all these people had been dead since circa 3500 B. C. Their flesh and the wood of the harp and of the chariot had long ago rotted into nothingness. Only the bones, the metal strings, the trinkets, the jewels were recently found by scientific diggers in Mesopotamia...