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Another new part of the center will contain a division for the study of cyrogenics, or low temperature physics. Here the CEA plans to build equipment for manfacturing liquid hydrogen, required for the synchrotron's operation...
Although the earth's magnetic field is still something of a mystery, most geophysicists think it is caused by motion of the liquid metal core of the earth's interior. The University of Chicago's Astronomer Gerard Kuiper reasons that if the moon has no magnetic field, it cannot have a liquid core. The Russian observation, he says, backs up his belief that the moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner...
...solid fuel that would be used in long-range rockets. Requirements were that the fuel burn evenly, resist cracking under pressure, and be capable of insulating the thin shell of the rocket from the heat of its own combustion. They hit upon a polysulfide-a rubbery, sticky liquid that could be poured, solidified, then burned at a controllable rate. It worked, and is now the basis for the Navy's Polaris and all other solid-fuel U.S. rockets. The small company that made it, Thiokol, has become one of the leaders of the new space industry. J.P.L. does...
Some of the College's practices directly encouraged what President Quincy considered sinful. Commencement exercises were little more than excuses for feasting and drinking, and since they were open to the public, crowds streamed from all parts of New England to enjoy Harvard's liquid hospitality. Class Day also bore a resemblance to a Dionysian revel...
Only recently have scientists realized that most of the universe is neither gaseous, liquid or solid. It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive characteristic is that its particles are electrically charged. Scientists call it "the fourth state of matter,'' because plasma follows its own peculiar laws, responding to electrical forces and creating them. The sun and stars are mostly plasma; so are many loose particles moving in space between them. In fact, cosmologically speaking, only in a few exceptional places does matter settle down and become electrically neutral. But since the human...