Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which are traveling toward the earth, cause a slight disintegration of the nuclei of the atoms of a substance through which they pass. The collision of a high speed electron with the nucleus knocks electrons out of it. The precipitation of these minute nuclear particles is known as a "shower...
...research men will endeavor to find out the size of the nuclei of a given material by the frequency of the showers. If it is possible to determine the number of particles contained in one shower, the scientists consider it likely that they will be able to learn much in regard to the properties of these precipitations...
...speed electrons, which enter our atmosphere from space. Millikan holds that photons, which also enter our atmosphere from without but unlike the electrons leave no trace of their passage, collide with the nuclei of inolecules in the air and cause a certain amount of disintegration of those nuclei. A shower would then be produced similar to those of the high speed electrons...
...Socialists they had no means of spreading their call, since their newspaper had been suppressed. Without means of quick communication, without leadership, the Socialists had little chance, but they tried to make up in fierceness what they lacked in organization. They met the vanguard of marching police with a shower of hand grenades...
...Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon; her dining nook; her galley with gas stove, refrigerator, pantry. Unusual for a ship of that size was the flying bridge, with all controls away from the social quarters. Accommodations: eight plus a crew of two. Price...