Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...materials were certainly simple enough-a piece of baling wire, a razor blade, some copper foil. But, explained a distinguished M.I.T. physicist one day last week, they were just about all that any schoolboy would need to build himself a device that could measure the amount of silver deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...skinned girl with classically solid Slavic good looks under a gloss of glamour. Her hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind of sex appeal that is strangely rare in a town where sex is a major product. Marilyn Monroe parodies sex, and Jayne Mansfield parodies Marilyn Monroe. Kim Novak simply communicates sex without leers. She moves in a kind of rapt...
When scientific rainmaking was invented in the U.S. in the late 19405, it seemed that at last man could do something about the weather. All over the world, commercial rainmakers armed themselves with Dry Ice or silver iodide, set to work seeding clouds wherever they could find local governments or groups of rain-hungry farmers willing to pay them. But over the years, not enough rain fell to support the reputation of the rainmakers. Rainmaking slipped into disrepute...
...Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put in charge of Australian rainmaking more than ten years ago. By careful and skeptical investigation he soon discovered why most efforts had been failures. The commercial rainmakers' favorite method (because it was the cheapest) was to spray silver iodide into the air from ground generators. Dr. Bowen found by actual experiment that ground-generated silver iodide seldom reaches the clouds. He proved further that silver iodide somehow can become inactivated as a rainmaker after less than one hour of exposure to the atmosphere; when it does reach the clouds...
Bowen began a study of Australia's weather almost cloud by cloud. He dispensed his silver iodide from generators on airplane's wingtips, learned by repeated experiment what kinds of clouds could be wrung out. Then, backed by the Australian government, he started a long series of carefully controlled experiments in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales...