Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ehrenhaft of Vienna again presented his hypothesis of electrical bodies smaller than electrons, of particles approximately one millionth of a yard in diameter. Practically none believed...
...being "Felix." He was born in Montreal in 1873 ; educated in France. From 1901 to 1905 he was government bacteriologist in Guatemala. At present he is at Alexandria, Egypt, director of the bacteriological service of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Council. †A millicron is one one-millionth of a millimeter, or one one-thousandth of a micron, or one twenty-fifth of a billionth of an inch. *This is the basis of the argument for Ipana tooth paste as advertised princeipally in Sunday papers and fiction-magazines...
...first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working on the theory that fluctuations in solar heat occasion all terrestrial weather disturbances, will warn farmers, mariners, aeronauts and the parent planning his child's picnic...
...reported by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Millikan, at a session of the American Geophysical Union, again described how he had detected, by observing their effect upon delicate instruments scabbarded against other influences, rays with a wave length one ten-millionth that of light rays; rays which can penetrate six feet of lead and which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe in all directions (TIME...
...invented an electrical apparatus which enabled him to take pictures of a bullet speeding through the air at 2,700 feet a second and its following gases. This is done by means of an electric spark which has a duration of roughly a millionth of a second...