Word: fractionation
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...deliveries of grains to the state. The peasants had harvested the grain last month on schedule. Yugoslavia's breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm land-the richest 25%), the peasants alibied that the threshing machines had broken down. Their three-year hitches on the collectives would be up this fall, and many were signing petitions...
...camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung in a closeup, you saw a regular rainbow of bats of varying colors. For a fraction of an instant, the moving bat became a big Japanese...
...green instead of blue. This means that the motion of the nebula has lengthened the wave length of its blue light by more than 800 angstroms (.000003 in.). "It's a tremendous shift," says Dr. Hubble. "In our own stellar system, the average shift is only a fraction of one angstrom...
Bridgman is currently studying the effects of this pressure on electrical resistences. Such high pressures are large enough to effect the properties of materials considerably. Except for a fraction of a percent all the matter in the universe exists under pressures of below 100,000 atmospheres. The pressure at the deepest part of the ocean is only 1,000 atmospheres and only double this in the explosion chamber...
Pratt & Whitney has already made big gains in solving the problem.lt has worked out high-alloy mixes which eliminate the use of columbium completely in the J-48. It has also reduced the use of other critical metals to a mere fraction of a pound per engine. Others have developed substitutes which permit existing supplies of the critical metals to be stretched 15 times farther...