Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortest time that physicists are likely to mention nowadays is a ten-thousandth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second (i.e., 10 23 sec.), which is about the time it takes a photon (corpuscle of light) to traverse the diameter of an atomic nucleus, but there seems little prospect of ever being able to measure...
...Steel capacity in 1952 will be rising at the rate of a million tons every three months, will soon reach 120 million tons a year.* (On Dec. 10, the U.S. steel industry turned out the 100 millionth ton of steel in 1951. Previous record: 89 million tons...
...process of building such intricate gadgets as radar, sonar and the proximity fuse, electronics engineers learned to measure time down to fractions as small as one millionth of a second. Last week at Brookhaven National Laboratory's nuclear science symposium, scientists agreed that one millionth is still too thick a slice of time for modern work: measurements for atomic experiments must be made a great deal faster than that...
...split-second technicians have taken over an old slang word to describe their work. In the language of the laboratory, a shake is now a precise interval, meaning one hundred-millionth of a second...
...that vaporized in the fierce heat of the explosions. Radio-guided, pilotless planes flew in & around the blast areas, carrying sensitive instruments to register a wide variety of effects. On the ground, close by the tall towers, other devices responded to events that took place in less than a millionth of a second, transmitted their observations to remote recorders before vanishing in the swirling turbulence. Pigs, dogs and mice, placed at carefully computed points, were later studied to determine the biological effects of blast and radiation...