Word: volt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curie-Joliots' first results in artificial radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and 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...
...brain of a normal person, relaxed and with eyes closed, beats eight to 20 times a second and produces ten to 50 millionths of a volt on each beat. On a chart those beats show up as a fast succession of small waves...
Just before an epileptic has a fit, a "larval explosion" of large surges occurs through his brain, three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...
...Chicago, Gangster Chester Novak who had boasted he could "take it," took the first 1,900-volt jolt of current in the electric chair, lived; took another, another, still lived; on the fifth jolt was dead. Sheriff Toman apologized for his electric chair: "Novak drank so much coffee, maybe it stimulated his heart...
...hollow square. Each row of three capacitators was connected in series, and the inside, middle and outside banks of 32 each were hooked up in parallel. Heavy copper straps converged like spider webs from the square to each of the two spheres in the centre. Ordinary 110-volt, 60-cycle current was stepped up by transformers to 75,000 volts, increased by rectifier tubes to 150,000. Half a minute is required to charge the capacitators. The discharge is accomplished...