Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth of a degree above absolute zero...
Like a great dahlia, the sun is ringed with petals of light. The inner corona, one-millionth as bright as the sun's heart, is dazzling yellow, the outer corona pearly white, with delicate, wraithlike streamers. Often the corona is racked by violent eruptions that produce magnetic storms through the earth's atmosphere. But it is impossible to detect such phenomena with an ordinary telescope, for the sun's brilliance obscures its crown. For years astronomers rushed to the ends of the earth, chasing eclipses so they could photograph the corona for a few minutes while...
Taking a lesson from Oakley, the U. S. Public Health Service for years sent warnings to 300 other "mottled enamel areas" from South Carolina to Oregon. Even one-millionth part of fluorine in four daily glasses of water over a period of a year, said dentists, was enough to pit a growing child's teeth for life. And fluorine-pitted teeth, all dentists believed, quickly decayed and fell...