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...succeeded in melting iron with the sun's rays. The one at Mont Louis, by far the biggest ever built, has reached a temperature of 2,500° C. (4,500° F.). Electric furnaces can also reach high temperatures, but experiments conducted in them are complicated by carbon from the electrodes. The sun's concentrated rays are pure heat; they can melt or vaporize a substance without contaminating...
...first Dr. Jones had to measure the blood flow by holding a Geiger counter over the muscle of a subject who had inhaled a radioisotope of an inert gas such as krypton or argon. That was expensive and took a long time. Now, by measuring the carbon dioxide generated in muscles during exercise, Dr. Jones can get his answers in a few minutes...
...mountainous wastelands of the Colorado Plateau were known for their scattering of dinosaur bones and the ruined homes of prehistoric cliff-dwelling Indians. But now the area is known for something far more important: uranium. At Uravan, Colo. last week, the U.S. Vanadium Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius of U.S. Vanadium...
...enthusiasm (e.g., an athlete's foot treatment that caused ulcers), hustled York Research's Vice President Warren C. Hyer out to San Francisco to work with some nationally known toxicologists on an investigation. They concluded that Pan Am's cleaners were actually using deadly carbon tetrachloride, which isn't in Glamorene. At this, San Francisco's health department publicly exonerated Glamorene and sales started up again...
...continuous-flow operations used in atomic energy plants, could learn the rest. When the huge, gaseous diffusion plant is completed about four years from now, Goodyear will employ only 4,000 to keep it running, will be paid a cost-plus fixed fee for the job. Meanwhile, Union Carbide & Carbon, which runs AEC's Oak Ridge and Paducah uranium plants, will teach Goodyear the ropes...