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Show Smashing the Atom. Will nature provide tlie pressures necessary to smnsli tlie atom? Three German scientists experimenting experi-menting iu Switzerland hope to altnln pressures up to 311,000,000 volts. They use a wide-meshed wire net having on area of 700 square yards. This is hunt! between two mountain peaks at a height of about 250 feet, and Is sop ported by long chains of InsnlntorH. In a llghtnlng-prnof metal hut there is a spark gap which can be lengthened length-ened until the electrodes are 15 feel apart. One of the electrodes Is connected con-nected with the wire net aerial, and during a storm the sparks jump across the pap at the rate of about one per second. |