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...Shifting their telescope to other areas of the Milky Way, the astrochemists found at least ten galactic clouds that contain ordinary carbon monoxide; several of these were also found to contain isotopes of the gas. In addition, two clouds showed definite traces of cyanide, a combination of carbon and nitrogen that had already been detected optically far off in the Milky Way. "We made it look so easy," Penzias jokes, "that the bloom may soon be off the business of finding molecules in space...
After setting up sophisticated detectors to monitor their results, a team ol physicists led by Albert Ghiorso used the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's heavy-ion linear accelerator (HILAC) to shoot nitrogen 15 nuclei with an energy level of 84 million electron volts at a submicroscopic bit of californium 249. Although a constant stream of nuclei was directed at the target, only about six collisions per hour produced atoms of the new element...
...nuclei of the nitrogen 15 and californium 249 atoms met, they fused into a single nucleus containing a total of 260 neutrons and protons (four neutrons were shed in the process). Of these particles, 105 were protons, the positively charged particles that determine the atomic number of the element. Since there were 105 protons, the nucleus of the 105th element had been created...
BOWDITCH: We have not considered nitrogen control until just recently because it was just recently that there was concern about that level in the atmosphere...
Crankcase systems went on cars in the state of California before there was any requirement. The oxides of nitrogen control systems we have on our cars today have predated that requirement in California. Regarding the California requirements-the most recent ones-we did not object to those requirements when they were presented at the regulatory body...