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You can't use solid hydrogen, because that melts too easily. Water can be turned into steam too easily, and requires more work. Paraffin is a solid that's largely hydrogen. That's what they've always used on neutrons since they discovered them. Confine your paraffin between tungsten walls, and you'll stop the secondary protons as well as the neutrons." "Hmmm I suppose so.

"If it turns blue," a prospector had told him, "like the color of me overalls, then, sure as hell, it's tungsten." "Well, well," commented Blount, gazing mildly about, for great men do not stop to repine, "and what do you use these big scales for?" "That's for the quantitative test," explained Wiley importantly.

The mystery of coal-tar products was shut up in a German laboratory; the secrets of tungsten, necessary to the toughest steel, were imprisoned in a Teutonic mill; and so on down a long list of products vital to industry and defence. Even those early and tragic reverses of the war did not stir the stolid British bulk. Men fought for a chance to fight; restriction still oppressed factory output.

That's my business, you know; loaning out money on good security, and you're good up to fifty thousand dollars." "Do you mean it?" demanded Wiley after a startled silence, and Blount slapped him heartily on the back. "Just try me," he said. "I've been looking up the market and tungsten is simply booming.

"Well," began Virginia as Wiley sat silent, "there really was tungsten in the mine. Wiley discovered it first he was just going through the town when he saw that specimen in my collection and since then, oh, everything has happened!" "By the dog!" exclaimed the Colonel starting quickly to his feet. "Do you mean that Crazy Charley spoke the truth?

And, because of the war, all supplies were high and the machinery houses were behind with their orders; yet so eager were the buyers to get hold of his tungsten that they almost took it out of the bins. He was storing up the ore, preparatory to milling it and shipping only the concentrates; but if they could have their way they would wrest it from his hands and rush it to the railroad post haste.

"Why," he said, "the juice that comes into your house to light it and heat the flat-irons and the toaster, and so on, comes in by one wire and goes out by another. Before it can get out, it's got to do all the work you want it to do push its way through the resistance of fine tungsten filaments in your lamps and the iron wires in your heaters that get white hot resisting it.

I use a tungsten spiral in a nitrogen atmosphere in my transformer and replace the quartz bulb with a capsule of zircorundum." "A capsule of what?" asked Thornton, whose chemistry was mid-Victorian. "Zircorundum," said Bennie, groping around in a drawer of his work table. "It's an absolute nonconductor of heat. Look here, just stick your finger in that."

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