Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...iodide, on which moisture condenses easily. When enough nuclei are present, snowflakes form on them at a comparatively low level. This condensation releases heat, which makes the air rise faster. The resulting turbulence tears the snowflakes apart. The fragments grow into larger flakes, releasing still more heat. The meteorological "chain reaction" turns the cloud into a violent thunderstorm that dashes torrents of rain on the ground below...
...Chain Reaction. Last July 21, said Langmuir, the Albuquerque weather forecast predicted no substantial amounts of rain. But at 5:30 a.m. Project Cirrus' ground generator (a gadget for releasing silver iodide smoke) started a day-long run. About 8:30 a.m. a big cloud formed down wind from the generator. At 9:57, a chain reaction started inside it, filling the cloud with raindrops that showed on a radar screen. Lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and heavy rain fell over a large area. Later thunderstorms near by watered other parts of New Mexico...
...Boston's dingy old Ames Building a month ago, Ernest F. Henderson, rumpled, fast-moving president of the Sheraton Hotel chain, got an urgent telephone call from Montreal. His Canadian manager, John C. Udd, excitedly told him that Canada's biggest private hotel chain, the Cardy Corp., was for sale. If Henderson wanted to buy it, he would have to give his answer by 5 p.m. that day. Henderson did some quick figuring and called back, "Yes." Then he hopped a train for Montreal...
Both men agreed that the bomb could never start the feared chain reaction in water that would blow up the oceans and finally the world. "The bomb uses heavy hydrogen," Oldenberg said, "and that occurs in only one atom...
...oxygen and regular hydrogen in water would be enough to dampen the chain reaction, so that the water would never explode...