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Pressures While You Wait Announcement of new apparatus which imposes pressures of 1,000,000 pounds a square inch, makes ice hotter than boiling water, and graphite scratch steel was made today at Harvard University. The pressure chamber shown above, made of steel, cone-shaped, and backed by a form-fitting steel block, makes possible pressures nearly twice the limit that formerly made steel bulge like lead.
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Pressures While You Wait Announcement of new apparatus which imposes pressures of 1,000,000 pounds a square inch, makes ice hotter than boiling water, and graphite scratch steel was made today at Harvard University. The pressure chamber shown above, made of steel, cone-shaped, and backed by a form-fitting steel block, makes possible pressures nearly twice the limit that formerly made steel bulge like lead.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1935]

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