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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.sci,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Contempt prior to investigation
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 08:02:04 EST
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Summary: "Atom smasher" was Van de Graaf static generator

In article <469@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax.UUCP (What's in a name ?) writes:
>I remember a science teacher demonstrating an "atom smasher" in class,
>looked like a static electricity generator to me :-) (I don't know
>anything about atom smashers, just that he said it was one)  Could
>these charges (and natural charges) be efficiently converted into
>a more useful form of energy?

Your teacher's "atom smasher" was a Van de Graaf static electricity
generator.  Biggest reason I can think of that one catalogue calls
them "atom smasher"s is to sell them to high school science teachers.
Possibly, they do generate enough V to smash an atom or two?

BTW, in the line before, it should have been "Arc" of the Covenant.
Besides not being quite an intercom (one 'm'), what makes one think
that it was a box containing mega-coulombs?
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}