Word: vanadium
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...furnace, such metals as vanadium, titanium, columbium, zirconium, and the platinum group, which have been difficult to study because of their very high melting points, can be melted into very pure alloys. Then, through X-ray photographs, significant students can be made of the individual peculiarities of molecular structure and other physical characteristics...
...Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...
...Since then their results have been reproduced and extended in dozens of laboratories in a half-dozen countries, notably England, Italy, the U. S. Italy's Professor Enrico Fermi and his aids have coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium, copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, chromium, barium, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, zinc, strontium, antimony, selenium, bromine...
...roulette with 50? chips when Mr. Whitney walked in. Addressing my wife and the girls, he said: 'That is a foolish way to try to make money. I can make some real money for you.' And I think he said he had a very good tip on Vanadium Steel. The girls said: 'Invest? What with?' He said: 'You leave it to me. I'll handle it.' Then he opened this account." Mrs. Webb carried a 1925 profit of $70,000 on the account over until 1926 when income tax rates were lower...
...Corp. for which his house is the U. S. banker. This year he was given the Royal Order of Commander of the North Star by the King of Sweden. His directorates also include Chase National Bank, International Telephone & Telegraph, Nash Motors Co., Otis Elevator Co., Shell Union Oil Corp., Vanadium Corp. One result of the Lee, Higginson-Transamerica affiliation will probably be co-operation between Transamerica's General Telephone & Electric Corp. and the International-Ericsson group...