Word: titanium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Iowa farmer Janice Sorenson turned up a huge, windmill-shaped hunk of titanium while harvesting corn last week, she knew exactly what she had found. General Electric had distributed photos of the disk in its search for the cause of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 last July in Sioux City. The crash, which killed 112 passengers, has been blamed on the explosion of the jet's GE-made aft engine, which severed the aircraft's hydraulic control lines...
Wolfgang H.E. Rueckner, a staff member of the Advanced Physics Laboratory which is trying to duplicate the Pons-Fleischmann experiment with titanium instead of palladium, called the MIT results disappointing. He added, however, that he will continue his experiment, since his device for detecting neutrons emitted in the reaction is 100 times more efficient than the methods used by the Utah team...
...Italian researchers forced deuterium gas to diffuse into scraps of titanium at high pressure and at several different temperatures, ranging from 73 degrees below zero Centigrade--the temperature of liquid nitrogen--to room temperature. All other experiments have used either heavy water or liquid deuterium...
...below the surface of the chilly Norwegian Sea, perhaps as deep as 2,000 ft., the submarine was running quietly and swiftly. With its tough titanium hull and liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors, the 361-ft. Mike-class vessel was one of the deepest-diving and fastest-running attack subs in Moscow's fleet. Then, late one morning last week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts...
Frustrated in its effort to challenge the U.S. on the surface, Moscow has built the world's largest, and in some ways most advanced, fleet of nuclear- powered submarines. While the undertaking produced such vessels as the titanium-hulled Alfa-class boats, so expensive that only six were built, it also produced newer Soviet sub classes that go faster, travel deeper and carry more weapons than their American rivals. Moscow's Oscar-class attack submarines are the most heavily armed on the seas...