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...showed a steady increase in the number of iodine drinkers, said Dr. Moore, not one fatal case of iodine poisoning was observed in Boston and vicinity. Reasons: 1) Iodine cannot be absorbed by the body without chemical change. It combines with fatty acids, proteins, starches, or unites with another element and changes from a powerful, slow-acting cell poison to a less toxic iodide. 2) Iodine produces such intense irritation of the gastrointestinal tract that the stomach rejects even small amounts...
...Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford), accomplished the first disintegration of an atom's nucleus, the first transmutation of one element into another. Using for bullets the particles which fly naturally out of radium, Rutherford made oxygen out of nitrogen...
...mass of atoms by recording their paths in a magnetic field. The principle is that the degree of curvature of an atom's path under magnetic attraction depends on its mass. This instrument was of enormous value in the study of isotopes, which are atoms of the same element having different weights...
...Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District (Boston's western outskirts, including Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Wellesley), the New Deal has given its blessing, although...
Last week, as result of experiments in the little Pittsburgh "pilot mill." J. & L. introduced a new process which it hopes will give the company dominance of the seamless pipe market. Hitherto manganese, the element which gives, steel its pliability, has been apt to cluster instead of spreading evenly through the steel; now J. & L. is feeding manganese into the molten metal in carefully measured and shaped lots. The new process, says Metallurgist Graham, is like using bits of quick-dissolving granulated sugar in coffee rather than lump sugar. The analogy would be more accurate, he adds, if lump sugar...