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Word: wherefrom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volts. If the 1,000,000 volts available at Caltech were used initially, the effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts, wherefrom rays could penetrate the thickest man-made utensil, could pop atoms open, perhaps lay bare the essentials of all Matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Popping Atoms Open | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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