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...Kuiper is sure that Venus' bands are due to rising or falling currents in its carbon-dioxide atmosphere. His theory is that where the currents are moving upward (as they do in the earth's doldrums), the fine yellow dust that forms the clouds of Venus is carried high. Where the currents move downward, the dust deck is lower, and above it lies a greater thickness of carbon dioxide. The CO2 reflects violet light better than the dust does, and this makes the down-current zones photograph brighter than the others. In light of longer wave length...
...bomb's three threats to human life (heat, blast and gamma rays), the heat radiation reaches farthest with full killing effect. Its rays, however, cannot penetrate opaque substances. The Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...
...tape. Nowadays the proper measure is paper (only a few yards of red tape are still used each year, mainly to bind treaties). This week a Hoover Commission task force estimated that the Government's paper work is costing the taxpayers $4 billion a year. By economizing in carbon copies, cutting down on gobbledygook and other reforms, the task force reckoned the Government could save a tidy $255 million annually...
...nature's method, which uses the enormous pressure and heat deep under the earth's surface. G.E.'s diamond crystals are formed by a giant press that concentrates 1,000 tons on a small metal cup heated to above 5,000° F. In it are carbon (probably graphite) and other secret material. When the matrix cools, it contains diamonds (crystallized carbon) the size of sand but big enough for industrial grinding purposes...
...Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi state oil and gas monopoly (TIME, Nov. 29), flew across the Atlantic last week to make a deal that will give his country its first doorway into the synthetic-rubber industry. In Manhattan, Mattei signed contracts with Phillips Petroleum Co. and Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. for their processes and help in building a $75 million synthetic-rubber plant at Ravenna, in the Po Valley. It will turn out 35,000 tons of GR-S rubber and 350,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer annually from nearby methane deposits. The plant will be not only the first synthetic-rubber...