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...molecule, magnified nearly 100,000,000 times (its actual size: one forty-millionth of an inch), is hexamethylbenzene, an organic compound derived from coal tar. Its design, deduced from its chemical behavior, has long been pictured in chemistry books as follows...
...light bends when it passes from water to air or vice versa; it also bends when it passes through air masses of varying density. Barnes and Bellinger caught these rapid changes in air density by means of an extremely fast mercury lamp with an exposure of less than one-millionth of a second. The light, flashed through a region of disturbed air, recorded on a photographic plate a "shadowgraph" showing groups of bunched air molecules. Using a more elaborate rig, which has a knife-edge that stops all but the bent light rays, the experimenters developed a technique so sensitive...
...Dropped one million tons of bombs on enemy targets (the one-millionth mark was reached during a raid on an oil refinery in Merseburg-Leuna on Sept. 28). The rate for one "recent" month was 4,400 tons per day, or three tons a minute...
...Superior Court for permission to change his name to Miswaldpornghuestficset Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth of a Soviet ruble. His argument: one 1944 ruble is equal to 50,000,000,000 1918 rubles. Never a Bridesmaid. In Detroit, Mrs. Korene Stankowich, 35, arrested by the FBI for cashing four different soldiers' allotment checks, confessed she had mar ried 15 men in the last 18 years...
Modern scientists have been able to study ever smaller particles of matter. Recently the pursuit of the infinitesimal reached a new vanishing point. An R.C.A. microphysicist developed an instrument which can analyze the atomic composition of a particle as small as a millionth of a billionth of a gram...