Word: atomization
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...chemicals of earth it, like all plants, manufactures a colorless substance called proto-chlorophyll. Proto-chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb the carbon. At that instant the colorless proto-chlorophyll becomes chlorophyll and makes the grass green...
...Urey's heavy hydrogen did not burst entirely unexpectedly upon the world, nor was its discovery in any way an accident. It was rather the result of ingenuity backed by sound logic. There were discrepancies in atomic weights. The oxygen atom should have weighed 16 times as much as the hydrogen atom, but it did not. Then it was found that oxygen had two isotopes* weighing 17 and 18 units respectively. Thus it began to seem more & more probable that hydrogen might also have one or more isotopes of its own. Birge of the University of California and Menzel...
...higher than normal concentration (one part in 4,500) in the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake, the sap and wood of willow trees, borax deposits. The hydrogen of honey, coal benzene and kerosene was found comparatively rich in D. But in the Sun's atmosphere only one atom of D in 100,000 of hydrogen appears to be present...
...chemists, according to Dr. Urey, the greatest importance of heavy hydrogen is that exchange reactions involving hydrogen can be traced, since the heavy and light atoms are as distinct as red and green. To physicists, the heavy nucleus, the deuton, has proved an invaluable atom-smashing projectile. To commercial chemists, interaction experiments between hydrogen and heavy hydrogen at low temperatures have offered hope that the cost of synthesizing alcohols and ammonia may be drastically reduced...
...former regime who at last will be given a real opportunity to prove his ability. This lad Aieta a hard-running shifty back whose long runs and brilliant playing were a feature of the Virginia contest, will bear careful watching by the Harvard secondary. Phil Conti, the sophomore "mighty atom", Jack Kenny, who saw service as quarterback last year, and Johnny Handrahan, the hardy fullback who is capable of playing sixty minutes of football and has featured every game this season with his long runbacks of punts, complete the backfield...