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Langmuir

[ lang-myoor ]

noun

  1. Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.


Langmuir

/ ˈlæŋmjʊə /

noun

  1. LangmuirIrving18811957MUSSCIENCE: chemist Irving. 1881–1957, US chemist. He developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and the atomic hydrogen welding process: Nobel prize for chemistry 1932
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During each eclipse, the Langmuir Probe recorded dramatic changes in the data.

To understand this variability, researchers reporting in ACS' Langmuir literally watched paint dry.

The devices included high-resolution and microscopic cameras, a thermal imager and a Langmuir probe, which researchers would have used to study how charged particles affect lunar dust.

In collaboration with the U.S. military, Langmuir attempted to seed hurricanes with silver iodide and dry ice—undeterred by the project’s potential to worsen storms, as it appeared to do in 1947.

In the 1940s, a scientist named Irving Langmuir hypothesized that he could weaken a hurricane by flying crystals of dry ice into its eye wall.

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