Langmuir

[lang-myoor]

noun

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

Langmuir

/ ˈlæŋmjʊə /

noun

1. Irving. 1881–1957, US chemist. He developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and the atomic hydrogen welding process: Nobel prize for chemistry 1932

Example Sentences

During each eclipse, the Langmuir Probe recorded dramatic changes in the data.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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