Word: nitrogenating
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...Commoner sees it, the deterioration of the environment is caused largely by the kinds of goods now being produced. Since 1946, synthetic fibers have displaced cotton and wool; aluminum, plastic and concrete have captured markets once held by lumber and steel; nitrogen fertilizers have replaced natural manure...
...first general agreement to pool space age hardware and know-how came in Moscow last October. Since then, the two nations have agreed to adopt lighting systems and color codes used by the Americans, and have chosen the nitrogen-oxygen cabin atmosphere preferred by the Soviet Union. In addition, both sides have decided upon new docking hardware different from the kind now used by either...
...conservatively dressed man with graying hair strode unflinchingly to the target area of one of the world's most powerful nuclear particle accelerators last week and donned a molded plastic mask. At a signal, the accelerator beam was switched on, and nitrogen nuclei, traveling at almost the speed of light, flashed into his temple through a hole in the mask. At first nothing happened, even though the beam struck his optic nerve, behind the retina. For the next pulse, however, his head was moved so that the beam passed through his retina. "Hey, there's one!" he shouted...
McMillan's excitement went beyond the light experiment. Hundreds of technicians, engineers and scientists had worked since March at modifying the Berkeley Bevatron-which was designed for experiments with high-energy protons-to accelerate even heavier particles: nitrogen ions. As a result, McMillan announced at a press conference last week, nitrogen nuclei had been boosted to 36 billion electron volts, the highest energy level ever attained for such heavy particles in a laboratory...
Bare Nuclei. What the Bevatron apparatus had really done was create a kind of homemade cosmic ray, a big step in bringing the universe down to earth. Like cosmic rays from outer space, the particles shot through the Bevatron are really bare nuclei of atoms-in this case nitrogen-that have been stripped of their electrons and accelerated to tremendous velocities. By shooting these tiny bullets into a plastic target rich in hydrogen atoms, the Berkeley team was able to dissect the laboratory-produced cosmic rays. The collisions fragmented the nitrogen nuclei into every element lighter than nitrogen...