A temperature of more than CO,OOO cleg.—2o 000 deg. higher than that of the hottest stars—was obtained in a recent experiment at the University of Chicago by discharging a large quantity of electricity from a condenser through a very fine wire. The metal tungsten was actually changed to helium by means of this enormous heat
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 775, 13 October 1922, Page 8
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