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Last week the sullen heralds of total war chattered in British skies, but many a British scientist, true to a long and stanch tradition, went calmly on with his researches in "pure" or fundamental science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin...
...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...
...temperature on earth will fall 200° below zero C. Finally the dying sun will completely die-it will be as cold as surrounding space, emit no light...
Last week East Ohio extricated itself from the dilemma. Proudly announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed...
...have bunged up badly enough to require replacements and reorganization, constituted no more than 20% of his total ground strength. His air strength, even if he had lost 2.100 planes as claimed by the Allies, was still numerically far ahead of the Allies', and the prospects were zero-zero of their catching up inside a year through new planes built at home...