Word: tungsten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-temperature nuclear reactor designed to melt its way into rock. The reactor is 2 ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, and its active material (uranium oxide) is enclosed in a cylinder of beryllium oxide, which serves as a heat insulator. The lower point, mostly tungsten, is heavy, while the upper point, mostly beryllium, is light...
...pioneered the use of micropaleontology (the study of fossils) for finding oil with the 1918 strike at the Desdemona field in Texas, later in Washington spearheaded the wartime campaign to make the U.S. self-sufficient in vital materials that led to the discovery of substantial domestic deposits of vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other valuable ores; of a stroke; in Washington...
...squash team, is studying ways to reduce underwater boundary-layer drag on submarines, for example. Others are pondering modern Argentine history, the future use of lasers in naval gunnery, the effect of radiation on transistors, the accuracy of navigational methods, and a potential heteropoly acid combining gallium and tungsten. The young scholars range far off base, from the Bell Telephone labs to a nuclear sub cruise...
Dangerous Cracks. Republic Steel ensures that its seamless pipes are right before they leave the mill by using an electromagnetic testing machine that watches for breaks as the pipes rush by at assembly-line speed and determines whether they can be repaired. With such nonmagnetic metals as zirconium and tungsten, testers use penetrating oils to test products that are unresponsive to electromagnetic devices. Mixed with dyes that show up under ultraviolet light, the oils quickly reveal dangerous cracks in such important products as nuclear reactor components and power stations...
...TUNGSTEN. Even after President Kennedy said in January that he was "astonished" at the huge stockpiles and triggered an investigation, federal bureaucracy blocked an eminently sensible sale of tungsten. In March, three electric companies-Westinghouse, General Electric and Sylvania*#151;were ready to buy 5,000,000 lbs. of tungsten from the stockpile at market prices to use in making lamps to fill a Government contract. But the Interior Department vetoed the sale on the ground that it would curtail demand. Result: one of the companies had to buy its tungsten abroad, thus adding to the balance-of-payments deficit...