Word: atomization
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...deep-set eyes of Professor Arthur Holly Compton, Presbyterian and Nobel Prize physicist, darkled last week as he told a Manhattan audience that he and his University of Chicago associates will soon begin an intensive effort not only to break the hearts of atoms but also to create new atoms out of rambling electricity. These experiments may well become historic. Among the probers into the tough little universe of the atom, Professor Compton ranks with the most dexterous; and he has the great wealth and equipment of the University of Chicago at command...
...there are eleven, authors attack their task in the proper spirit. Every man writes with his tongue in his cheek which allows sly digs and graceful whimsy. "If" is meant purely for purposes of entertainment and it will fulfill that purpose for those people who have an atom of imagination about them...
Cosmic rays are shortest and most penetrating. They are the quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic...
...irradiation or penetrating bullets of energy, scientists have often shot away from the atom the electrons which spin about the nucleus. But if they were able to wedge apart the stable nucleus, change the number and arrangement of its protons and electrons, they could transmute one element to another, unloosing at the same time tremendous energy. It has been estimated that one million horsepower would be given off for one hour in forming 4 gr. of helium out of hydrogen. If man could make positive and negative charges rush together, annihilate their substance and become transformed into light rays...
...Merle A. Tuve, Carnegie Institution at Washington: "We know the amount of energy that is contained in the nucleus of the atom. But nobody yet knows its nature sufficiently to be able to tell how, if at all, such energy could be released for practical uses...