Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormous quantity of heat required to change tungsten into helium--50,000 degrees Fahrenheit was the temperature at which the experiments in Chicago were conducted--while detracting nothing from the intense interest in the scientific aspect of the feat, would nevertheless render the experiment useless for all practical purposes and would leave intact the present theory of atoms as regards use under normal circumstances...