Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Dr. Karl Mueller claimed to have discovered a process for reducing metal foils to a thinness of one-millionth of a centimetre,* retaining elasticity in foils transparent as oculists' glass. The importance: to telephones, radios, musical instruments; to study of atomic structures...
...perhaps the millionth time, in the Convent of the Carmelite Sisters, Louvain, Belgium, the bread and wine became sacred elements of the body of Our Lord. The priest-saying his first mass-was Count Claude Delbee, one-time officer in the army of the King of the Belgians. To his former wife, the Countess, he gave the wafer, looked upon her, never to look again...
...many types of vibrations in the ether about them, the unaided human senses can perceive only a small portion. The spectrum of visible light runs from deep violet, with a wavelength of 16 millionths of an inch, down to deep red, with waves 28 millionths of an inch long. On the "ultra" side of this spectrum, occur the ultraviolet rays with waves 1 millionth of an inch; then a range of little-known shorter vibrations; then the famed X-rays; then, shortest of all known rays, the gamma rays given off by radium. On the infra or long wave side...
...Physiology", he said, "is a study of the nerves, muscles, and the heart. The heart in contracting develops electric currents. Every muscle in contracting generates electricity. Of course the amperage is minute, the average magnitude being about one ten-millionth part of an ampere. You can imagine the sensitivity required of any instrument to measure this infinitesimal electric current...
...millimicron is one millionth of a millimetre (.03937 of an inch...