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Bridgeman Hits 700,000
Using newly designed equipment, Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, has recently been able to squeeze materials with a force of 700,000 pounds to the square inch.
This force is comparable to those which occur nearly ninety-five miles within the earth. Under such a pressure new forms of bismuth and helium have been developed by him.
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