Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation or by X-ray or radium treatment...
...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...
...vacuum. But the Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...
...PLEASURES OF PEACOCK (458 pp.) -Edited by Ben Ray Redman-Farrar Straus...
Critic Ben Ray Redman's informative introduction to The Pleasures of Peacock lacks the sparkle of his subject's prose. So do the "narrative bridges" with which he tries to repair his damage in cutting entire sections from five of the novels...