Word: diffusionism
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> Why does the moral superiority which makes the people of the democracies think of themselves as the children of light, constantly result in doubt, skepticism, confusion, unsureness about objectives, diffusion of effort, widespread paralysis of the will to act, dread of defeat, while the children of totalitarian darkness constantly assert...
Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Wendell H. Furry, and Otto Oldenberg, to continue experiments on masses and abundances of isotopes, and in particular to separate in quantities isotopes or gas mixtures by thermal diffusion.
Centrifuges. The three-way split will not put atomic power to work tomorrow. The only promising kind of uranium for neutron-splitting or "fission" is the isotope called U-235.- This kind is scarce and extremely difficult to separate from the common isotope, 11-238. So far, not enough U...
*No star is near enough to earth for its image to appear in the telescope as a disc (as do the images of solar planets). If it were not for atmospheric diffusion and imperfections of the instrument, which convert star images into undulant blobs, they would appear in the telescope...
Last week, however, word came from Stockholm that a Swedish scientist had been building thermal diffusion tubes expected to speed up U-235 production 11,000 times, when he was stopped by the war raging around his beleaguered country. In the U. S. Gano Dunn, president of J. G.