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Show Smashing the Atom. Will nature provide tlie pressures necessary to smash the utora? Three German scientists experimenting experi-menting In Switzerland hope to attulu pressures up to 30,000,000 volls. They use a wide-meshed wire net having au area of 700 square yards. Tills Is hunji between two mountain peaks at a height of about 250 feet, and Is sup ported by long chains of Insulators. In a lightning-proof 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 gap at the rate of about one per second. |