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Carbon tetrachloride. Although sand is of great value for extinguishing fires, it has the disadvantage that any glass apparatus around which the fire centres is usually smashed under the weight of the sand. Alternatively, therefore, for small fires carbon tetrachloride may be poured in a copious stream from a Winchester Bottle on to the... 

What a storyi Fullerenes formed during the ex plosion of a star travel through interstellar space as passengers on a comet or asteroid that eventually smashes into Earth Some of the fullerenes carry pas sengers themselves—atoms of helium and argon from the dying star The fullerenes and the noble gas atoms silently wait for 251 million years to tell us where they came from and what happened when they got here... 

Particle Attrition. Distributor jets are a potential source of particle attrition. Particles are swept into the jet, accelerated to a high velocity, and smash into other particles as they leave. To reduce attrition at distributors, a shroud or larger-diameter pipe is often added concentric to the jet hole, as shown in Figure 15. The required length of the concentric shroud is given by the relation... 

Zers., abbret. (Zersetzung) decomposition, zerschellen, v.t. smash, shatter, shiver, zerschlagen, v.t. break in pieces, smash, shatter, crush, batter. 

Induced nuclear fission is fission caused by bombarding a heavy nucleus with neutrons (Fig. 17.23). The nucleus breaks into two fragments when struck by a projectile. Nuclei that can undergo induced fission are called fissionable. For most nuclei, fission takes place only if the impinging neutrons travel so rapidly that they can smash into the nucleus and drive it apart with the shock of impact uranium-238 undergoes fission in this way. Fissile nuclei, however, are nuclei that can be nudged into breaking apart even by slow neutrons. They include uranium-235, uranium-233, and plutonium-239—the fuels of nuclear power plants. 

The alpha particles could be obtained from a natural decay process. At present, a variety of particles can be used to bombard nuclei (Table 22-3), some of which are raised to high energies in atom smashing machines. Again, nuclear equations can be written, in which the net charge and the total of the mass numbers on one side must be the same as their counterparts on the other side. 

A printing blanket with a specially manufactured layer designed to give or compress, under pressure from the printing plate and impression cylinder. Compressible blankets resist smashing and usually print a sharper halftone dot. 

A threat that was not veiled I believed, however, that two things underlay Judge Morris unhappiness—a lack of interest in the subject, and the fear that the trial would never be finished. I recalled getting acquainted with Morris at a luncheon on the first day of the trial. Looking around the once-bomb-smashed ceiling, he d shaken his head and said "We have to worry about the Russians now it wouldn t surprise me if they overran the courtroom before we get through."... 

Leap into the Air (196). Wells continues In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous record. There was an enormous increase also in violent crime throughout the world. The thing had come upon an unprepared humanity it seemed as though human society was to be smashed by its own magnificent gains (196). This insight into the unexpectedly disastrous consequence of sudden scientific advances dominates most of the rest of the novel. 

James S. Allen, Smash the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict (New York Workers Library, 1933), pp. 11-12 Haywood, Black Bolshevik, pp. 358-363 James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro (New York Vintage, 1994), pp. 27-29,47-52, and passim Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro A Tragedy of the American South (Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 1969), pp. 137-173. 

Figure 6. EDX spectra of a Pd filled PWHGM after smashed open to reveal its Pd.

Catherine s attack on Cagliostro turned out to be prophetic, in a way. She d smashed his Masonic mission to Russia and helped hound him out of Poland, but in the process she forced him to discover a potent new talent. He d been no shaman when he arrived in Saint Petersburg, but he left as one. 

Subject broke a wooden chair and smashed a hole in the wall after tearing down a 4 by 7 -foot panel of padding. Subject suddenly raced for the door. After a brief struggle, four of us subdued him. He was clearly terrified and convinced we were intending to kill him. 

The chemical and physical properties of Unq (or rutherfordium) are homologous with the element hafnium ( jHf), located just above it in group 4 (fVB) in the periodic table. It was first claimed to be produced artificially by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) located in Dubna, Russia. The Russian scientists used a cyclotron that smashed a target of plutonium-242 with very heavy ions of neon-22, resulting in the following reaction Pu-242 + jjjNe-22 —> jj, Unq-260 + 4 n-1 (alpha radiation). The Russians named Unq-260 kurcha-tovium (Ku-260) for the head of their center, Ivan Kurchatov. (See details in the next section, History. )... 

Lithium aluminum hydride squeezed, or smashed, may cause a fire. 

Launched like missiles, atomic nuclei can smash head-on into other atomic nuclei, fragmenting both projectile and target. Rare and precious species can emerge intact from amongst the debris. Examples are lithium, beryllium and boron, for which nature has found no other means of manufacture. 

In addition to all these fusion and neutron capture processes, there is a further type of nuclear reaction, called spallation. Rather than fusing together, nuclei are smashed up or chipped to produce smaller species. This process is thought to be the origin of most of the lithium, beryllium and boron in the Universe. 

Even then, the way was blocked by the fact that the third accomplice as often as not smashed the feeble beryllium-8 in two. Meanwhile, British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle struck upon a quite brilliant idea. To get around the difficulty, he hypothesised that the energy levels of beryllium, helium and carbon had to have very precisely adjusted values in order to accelerate Salpeter s two-step process and give it every chance of coming to fruition. Everything thus depended upon the consonance between energy levels. 

In fact the temperatnre increases so qnickly in the central regions that iron itself is smashed apart by ravaging photons. It is photodisintegrated into helium and this in turn is shattered into protons and neutrons. The density is such that the protons, usually so placid, swallow electrons to become neutrons, spitting out neutrinos like pips ... 

Arnold s presence here is probably due to the fact that he was presumed to be the author of the Rosarium, a text that includes a number of chemical weddings. He was also famous in legend for having created a homunculus in a glass vessel that he later smashed before the creature could develop a soul (Newman 7). Perhaps we can read a ghostly reminder of a (failed) act of creation in his presence at the wedding. 

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