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According to Drs. Libby and Grosse, the tritium now on earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...
...refinery at Wonsan (one of the principal fuel sources of the North Korean tanks), which had been bombed by B-29s the day before, reported the refinery "a twisted mass of steel." In three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants and warehouses" in the target area...
...Superfort crews were more at home in a 50-plane attack on the Chosen Nitrogen Co. plant at Hungnam, on the east coast of North Korea. Operated in World War II by the Japanese, the Hungnam plant was a major producer of glycerine, nitric and sulphuric acid. Huge quantities of explosives were presumed to be stored in the factory area...
...degrees centigrade. Under such extreme conditions all atomic particles are in violent motion. The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen (single protons) zip around with enormous speed. They jostle one another and slam against other nuclei -smashing some and joining others. A complex chain of reactions takes place involving carbon and nitrogen, but the final result is the fusion of hydrogen into helium...
...look around the laboratory and work on any problem which interested him. On one project he worked for three years, introducing various gases into an incandescent lamp bulb just to see what would happen. In 1912 he made his first important discovery: an electric bulb filled with nitrogen was more efficient than the so-called "vacuum" bulb, since the gas retards evaporation of the tungsten filament. It displaced the old vacuum bulb, saved users of electricity a billion dollars a year...