Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-03 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

FREAKS and ODDITIES IN SCIENCE SCIENCE NEW NEWS NEWS- S- S Experiments which demonstrate that atoms in being split liberate more energy than is put into the smashing process are arc of high importance Atoms are made up of various SCIENCE IS building building- units principally pro pro- GETTING OETTING tons alpha particles and loose SOMETHING electrons The proton is the FOR NOTHING positive unit of ot electricity and matter and is the nucleus of ot the hydrogen atom The alpha particle is the nucleus of the helium atom made up of four protons and two electrons bound together The electron is the negative unit of ot electricity or matter Atoms may maybe maybe maybe be visualized as nuclei consisting of protons alpha particles and electrons in a package surrounded by outside electrons that can be removed The lithium atom attacked in the experiments consists of ot one alpha particle and three protons with negative electrons to balance the charge of ot the positive part The bombardment under relative relative rela rela- tive Uve low voltage added a proton to the combination which then split into two tuo alpha particles The three original inal protons in the a atom combined combined com corn with the proton to form another alpha par par- tide The excess energy sixteen million volts to ob obtain ob ob- tam tain which only six hundred volts were used is of ot chief interest If this profit of energy could be made reliable there would be no worry about the source of the worlds world's future energy On the basis of these experiments the hope of obtaining something for nothing getting more energy out of matter than is put into 1 it is due for a revival Eventually the synthesis and disintegrations may maybe maybe maybe be put to work but this will probably take many years