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More recently, pulsed neutron sources have been developed, such as ISIS, at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK. These sources use pulses of high energy protons to smash into a uranium target, releasing pulses of neutrons with a wide energy range. 

In Figure 3-13 we show the most recent INS results reported by Parker [86] on oriented polyethylene at 30 K obtained with the high-resolution, broad-band spee-trometer (TFXA) at ISIS pulsed spallation neutron source at the Rutherford Apple-ton Laboratory, Chilton, UK. Notice that the whole spectral range 0-4000 cm range has been explored with considerable resolution, especially in the lower-energy region. 

The development of high fluxes of low-energy neutrons from pulsed accelerator sources, such as IPNS at Argonne National Laboratory (USA), KEK (Japan) and, especially, ISIS at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) provides a most suitable probe for studies of the vibrational dynamics of hydrogenous materials. The advantages of neutron scattering for the study of molecular dynamics stem from their remarkable properties. 

We do not know whether seemingly objective scientific witnesses ever saw a real transmutation in an alchemists laboratory, but we do know that transmutation is possible. It goes on naturally all the time as radioactive elements decay and give off" radiation—and the end-product of this "putrefaction" is lead. Transmutation is also possible in a modem laboratory. Apart from the changes from one known element to another, as in Rutherford s experiment, there are more than a dozen new elements known to science which do not occur naturally at all, but which have been made in the course of experiments in nuclear energy. The only limitation to laboratory transmutation at the moment is that subatomic particles that travel at high speeds and with immense energies are needed. 

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