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Show Smashing the Atom. Will nature provide the pressures necessary to smash the atom? Three German scientists experimenting experi-menting In Switzerland hope to attain pressures up to 30,000,000 volts. They use a wide-meshed wire net having an area of 700 square yards. This Is hung between two mountain peaks at a height of about 250 feet, and Is supported 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 IB feet apart. One of the electrodes Is connected con-nected with the wire net aerial, mid during a storm the sparks jump across the gup at Ihe rate of about one per second. |