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...tracers" Seaborg meant radioactive tags attached to chemical elements. Radioactive carbon, for instance, follows ordinary carbon through the most complicated chemical reactions, and its progress can be traced by its radioactive effects. Thus if an infinitesimal part of the carbon in sugar is made radioactive and fed to a human being, physiologists can follow it through the digestive tract, into the blood, the muscles, and out through the lungs as carbon dioxide...
...dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals of delicate silver lines...
...Three new synthetic engine lubricants, all from different sources (silicones, natural gas and other organic chemicals) were previewed last week. The makers' claim: all three have a fairly constant rate of flow in boiling heat or freezing cold; none forms sludge, carbon or varnish on cylinder heads and spark plugs. California's Union Oil Co. joined the chorus with a motor oil called "New Triton," which is long-wearing, noncorrosive, sludge-free...
...Carbon-13, a rare-as-radium substance that can now be produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
Some of the things which these men did and the companies they worked with (Chrysler Corp., General Electric, Westinghouse Electric and Union Carbide & Carbon) can now be told...