Word: nitrogenous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with special heating, evacuating and analyzing devices ?that gas thoroughly permeates metal. From a piece of molybdenum he extracted a speck of gas one-eighth the volume of a common pin, one 100-millionth of an ounce. Dr. Marshall found it a mixture of 43% carbon monoxide, 57% nitrogen...
...American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed
...times the weight of air at sea level. Cosmic rays ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
...Professor Lamb was a lieutenant colonel in the research division of the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. A., in charge of defense chemical research. He served on the United States Fixed Nitrogen Mission in 1919, and from 1919 to 1921 was director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory in Washington...
...bring lamplighters back, set them to lighting lamps with electricity once every six months. Professor Knipp had made a flask of pyrex glass of 22-litre capacity, with a stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire to a 25,000-volt high-frequency generator. There was a flash, then the bulb began to glow with a bright yellow light. It continued to glow for 35 minutes after the shock had been administered. Four...