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...negative charges rush together, annihilate their substance and become transformed into light rays, as they are believed to do in the sun's atoms, he could produce still more energy. By using fast alpha rays, Sir Ernest Rutherford, British physicist, has already knocked some protons out of the nitrogen nucleus. Last year another scientist pried into the atom's heart without blowing up the universe or himself: Dr. William Draper Harkins of the University of Chicago shot helium at nitrogen atoms, smashed them to form fluorine (TIME, April...
...Atmospheric Nitrogen Division. A justification of all of Allied's policies is the success it has had in the production of synthetic nitrogen. The War found the world dependent upon Chile's natural nitrate. Germany met the problem by developing synthetic nitrogen, and Allied's accomplishments in the same direction have made the U. S. independent of other countries for this chemical valuable in peace, invaluable during...
Allied's place in the world nitrogen industry is typical of its attitude. It would have none of the recent Nitrogen Cartel by which Germany and the united producers of Chile endeavored to stabilize the industry (TIME, Aug. 18, FORTUNE, October). It remained independent, silent, giving no quarter, asking none. To understand Allied's secrecy, Allied's independence, one need only consider the big Allied nitrogen fixation plant at Hopewell, Va. It is said that even Mr. Weber has never visited this plant to which, certainly, no other director has ever been. Only five men are credited...
Typical of Orlando Weber was his action when Dr. Carl Bosch of I. G. Farbenindustrie invited him to inspect the big nitrogen fixation plant at Leunawerk, Germany. To Leunawerk went Mr. Weber, but he refused to inspect the plant except from the outside. This was neither modesty nor lack of grace, but unwillingness to accept a courtesy he could not return. All the world knows about Leunawerk; it may not know about Hopewell...
...experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...