Word: rhodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DIFFERENT-EXCITING-INSPIRING" is a rhodium-finish Crucifix Prayer Book, an inch and a half long and sparkling with handset imported rhinestones. "Contains Hidden Holy Prayer! Look thru center stone . . . see tiny child praying . . . read beautiful Lord's Prayer!" This $9.95 value is now only $2.98, and, in addition, purchasers may "wear amazing Crucifix Prayer Book for 10 Days at Our Risk...
...tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type, which gets much of its energy from the fission of normally inactive uranium...