Word: specking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...
...Western Union's Long Island laboratory, a new kind of lamp was shining last week. It might not be the biggest, the brightest or the most economical, but designers and users of optical instruments were excited about it. Reason: its light came from a speck of molten metal only three one-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
Western Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
...speck which the General could not see was plenty for the chemists. Working with solutions measured in microlitres (7,000ths of a teaspoon), they accurately determined plutonium's chemical properties. Then they devised a complex process for separating it from the fiercely radioactive by-products of the uranium-plutonium pile at Hanford, Washington. The pile produced at least ico different byproducts. Most are unstable isotopes of familiar elements (the same periodic numbers but different atomic weights...
Most home-staying U.S. citizens still think of Guam as a speck in the vast Pacific. But actually Guam is a sizable piece of land covering 206 square miles. By last week, four months after its recapture by U.S. forces, it was also taking shape as a great, new base which its commanders proudly characterized as the "Pearl Harbor of the Western Pacific...