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Word: partway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Electric Co.' announced that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sub-Atom-Smashing | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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