Word: fractionation
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...preservative and a salve that grows hair, to wings enabling man to fly on his own power. Du Pont's President Greene-walt thinks their imagination may have ranged a little far, but he points out that there are 90-odd chemical elements and that only a tiny fraction of their possible combinations have been put to commercial use. Says he: "The greatest discoveries are yet to come...
Between today and April 19 when the crew season starts, Coach Tom Bolles will have to find the right assortment of eight oarsmen out of a choice of 735,471 possible combinations. It will, of course, be impossible for Bolles to test even a fraction of this number of alignments, but the figure indicates the puzzle that confronts a crew coach...
...fraction of a second later the main mass of iron hit the rock. It was traveling so fast that the heat of impact vaporized most of it. As the fiery jet of metallic vapor spurted out of the crater, the second meteorite struck and burrowed under the rim of rock tilted upward by the first. Most of it, too, turned into iron vapor and spurted into...
...supporting the Defense Department's draft bill, Conant explained that he was accepting two compromises in his original U.M.S. proposals. He said he had become convinced that a small fraction of each age group should be sent back to college to become "army specialists...
...manifestation of Communist aggression in Korea during these last six months," said Douglas, "is but the showing of the fin of the shark above the water. It is but a fraction of the striking power of the man-eater which lies beneath the surface. Day before yesterday it was Czechoslovakia; yesterday it was China; today it is Korea. What will it be tomorrow...