Word: crystalize
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...about a new electronic device which may solve the memory problem. Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate. This peculiar stuff is "ferroelectric": i.e., if it is placed between two metal contacts, a considerable amount of electrical energy can be made to flow into the crystal and stay there. There is room for 2,500 dots of energy on a one-inch square of crystal...
...binary digit) of information. If charged, it is considered a "one"; if uncharged, it is a "zero." By arranging ones and zeros in a code, a string of numbers, letters or words can be stored in dot form (2,500 bits is the equivalent of 69 words). When the crystal has heard its lesson once, it remembers for a week or more...
...bits can be "read out" by sending pulses of electricity to the dots on the crystal. Each dot absorbs more or less electricity according to whether it is charged or not. Sensitive relays measure the flow of current and report whether each dot is a one or a zero. This process, which takes less than a millionth of a second, is the equivalent of the human brain's "bringing something to mind...
...rehearsal had begun with Bach's Suite No. 2 for Flute and Strings--chosen, no doubt, to show off the new female flutist, Doriot Anthony. Her crystal clear tone and prodigious breath control clicited applause from both audience and orchestra...
...muscular directness he chronicled the feverish, unpredictable growth of New York. He reported political meetings, flicking a patrician's flinty adjective at the "unwashed democracy." He graphically described the famous crimes of his day, the publicity feats of P. T. Barnum. the burning of New York's Crystal Palace, the laying of the Atlantic Cable...