Word: atomization
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Stanley showed. The biggest known, they weigh 17 million times as much as a hydrogen atom, nearly one million times as much as a molecule of water. Left by themselves they are inert. But in contact with living plant or animal material they multiply incessantly. Under some conditions the virus protein molecule changes its inner structure all by itself. It then causes a totally different disease...
...anthropologists in Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting place, and where, if he wished, an ichthyologist could listen to an atom-smasher and a cosmologist to a breeder of fruit flies...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...
...hero, Lewis writes little of the spectacular deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down...
Dangerous Molecule. Prime concern of physicists is the atom, of chemists the molecule. But whereas the batches of atoms created or transmuted by physicists cannot even be seen under the microscope, chemists now synthesize molecules after Nature's pattern in quantities that keep factories humming and salesmen humping. Molecules are groups of atoms which act as chemical units. The vast importance of molecular structure is well illustrated by the case of ozone, which is a modification of oxygen having three atoms in its molecule instead of the ordinary two. In the popular mind "ozone" has long been a synonym...