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...since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...
According to the Physical Review, a group of scientists at the University of California (Albert Ghiorso, G. Bernard Rossi, Bernard G. Harvey and Stanley G. Thompson) have created Element 99, the heaviest so far. They did it by bombarding Uranium 238 (Element 92) with a beam of positively charged nitrogen atoms from a 60-inch cyclotron. The nitrogen atoms contained seven protons and seven neutrons, and when they collided with U-238, all except five of the neutrons joined its nucleus. The seven added protons raised the atomic number to 99, and the added neutrons and protons together raised...
...work was done under the Atomic Energy Commission, which is pushing similar work with beams of nitrogen and other large nuclei in many parts of the U.S. The AEC's long-range interest can be guessed at. When a nitrogen atom can be made to hit U-238, not normally considered fissionable, it almost always causes fission. When it forms Element 99, it liberates five free neutrons, and these are capable of causing fission too. AEC may be feeling for a new method of releasing atomic energy from difficult...
...drunkenness known as nitrogen narcosis is a factor of diving physiology. The first stage is a mild anesthesia, a gaseous attack on the central nervous system. It destroys the instinct for life...
...suit, using only a mouthpiece breathing apparatus to equalize the tremendous pressures of the ocean's silent world. Unlike Captain Cousteau, who brought the silent world on to the printed page in a 1953 bestseller (TIME, Feb. 9) Root often said that he had never suffered from the nitrogen narcosis which Cousteau calls also "the rapture of the depths...