Word: volt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the group will assemble in Jefferson 250 and then proceed to the MacKay Laboratories to see the Cyclotron in action deo volente. Professor Saunders says that it has been working well of late hurling an 11,000,000 atom-smashing volt "bullet." The tour will include several other representative pieces of the research constantly in progress at the Laboratories...
Heavy atoms like uranium had been chipped before, but not cracked in two. Moreover, the most effective agents for splitting or "fission" of uranium were "slow" neutrons with initial energies of only a fraction of one electron-volt, so that the energy profit from one fission was enormous...