Word: atomization
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Stars From An Egg. Chandrasekhar's inspiration was the "expanding universe'' theory of Belgium's Canon Georges Lemaitre, who eleven years ago suggested that all the matter in the universe was once condensed into a single primordial atom-"Lemaitre's egg," as genial scientists call...
...Exploration of the atom-chief interest of physicists -has come to a stop. "The only cyclotrons operating now," says Dr. Edward U. Condon of Westinghouse, "are those being used to prepare artificial radioactive materials for medical research...
...longer do scientists refuse to drop their own work and devise weapons, as Lord Rutherford in World War I at first refused to work on submarine detection because he was on the verge of splitting the atom-an achievement, he insisted, more important than the war itself. Now that war is total, and mechanized to a degree that would have astounded bicycle fantasists of 75 years ago (see cut), scientific knowledge is military power, i.e., the means of survival...
Methylene blue and purple thionine looked promising. Whereas chlorophyll combines water and carbon dioxide into glucose in the presence of light, these pigments transform ferrous sulfate [Fe (SO4)] into ferric sulfate [Fe2 (SO4)3]. The ferrous compound consists of two "ions"-a positively charged iron atom linked with a negative sulfate unit. Under the influence of these pigments and light, the ions regroup themselves into the ferric form-two positive units linked with three negative units. And in the dark this reaction reverses itself. Regrouping of the ions upsets the electrical balance of the solution, creating electrical potentials...
...Atom-smashing research has now become secret at the University of California-including further developments of the half-built 4,900-ton cyclotron...