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...Mighty Atom" Will Bear Watching...
...Atom Guns. The two most powerful U. S. generators of electricity to shoot at atoms are Professor Lawrence's 5,000,000-volt generator at Berkeley and Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff's 10,000,000-volt one at Round Hill, Mass. Professor Lawrence gets his effect by whirling a loin. disk in an 85-ton magnet. Last week he said that he was substituting a 40-in. disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which...
...Curie-Joliot elements were all briefly radioactive, and all quickly returned to their original bases. The Curie-Joliot work proved that theorists have a pretty accurate understanding of how the atom works. By-&-by an engineer may use the information to make a steam engine run more efficiently. Metallurgists may make better kinds of stainless steel. Physiologists may prevent rickets and tooth decay, treat cancer...
...SOME little atom may have taken, in some tiny crossroad of my brain, the wrong turning. Some infinitesimal dead leaf may have lodged itself, in my thought's stream, against some infinitesimal twig, and the consequences may prove incalculable...
...Visible Atoms. Academy members had the privilege of beholding, projected on a screen, photographs of three kinds of atoms. The helium atom appeared as a vague blob of electricity. In the neon atom the inner & outer groups of orbital electrons were clearly distinguishable. In the argon atom the inner and middle electron groups showed as one blurred ring, but separate from the outer group. The images were composite photographs of billions of atoms resolved into single pictures by photographing a revolving plate the shape of which was determined by x-ray diffraction. Though indirect, complex and laborious, the method...