Skimming practice by My padlet https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55 Skim the paragraphs and choose the best option en-us 2020-10-21 02:24:21 UTC 2021-06-19 15:51:24 UTC hello@padlet.com (B) The story of the atom bomb starts in the Edwardian age, when scientists such as Ernest Rutherford were grappling with a new way of conceiving the physical world. The idea was that solid elements might be made up of tiny particles in atoms. "When it became apparent that the Rutherford atom had a dense nucleus, there was a sense that it was like a coiled spring," says Andrew Nahum, curator of the Science Museum's Churchill's Scientists exhibition. Wells was fascinated with the new discoveries. He had a track record of predicting technological innovations. Winston Churchill credited Wells for coming up with the idea of using aeroplanes and tanks in combat ahead of World War One. Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847250726 2020-10-21 02:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847250726 (C) The two men met and discussed ideas over the decades, especially as Churchill, a highly popular writer himself, spent the interwar years out of political power, contemplating the rising instability of Europe. Churchill grasped the danger of technology running ahead of human maturity, penning a 1924 article in the Pall Mall Gazette called "Shall we all commit suicide?". In the article, Churchill wrote: "Might a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings - nay to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke?" This idea of the orange-sized bomb is credited by Graham Farmelo, author of Churchill's Bomb, directly to the imagery of The World Set Free. Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251316 2020-10-21 02:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251316 (D) By 1932 British scientists had succeeded in splitting the atom for the first time by artificial means, although some believed it couldn't produce huge amounts of energy. But the same year the Hungarian emigre physicist Leo Szilard read The World Set Free. Szilard believed that the splitting of the atom could produce vast energy. He later wrote that Wells showed him "what the liberation of atomic energy on a large scale would mean". Szilard suddenly came up with the answer in September 1933 - the chain reaction - while watching the traffic lights turn green in Russell Square in London. He wrote: "It suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an element which is split by neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbed one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear chain reaction." Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251648 2020-10-21 02:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251648 (E) The oil had reacted to produce cyanide, a vital ingredient of Prussian blue. Diesbach kept his recipe secret for many years, but it was discovered and published in 1724, after which anyone could make the colour. By the 1750s, it cost just a tenth of ultramarine. But it wasn't such a glorious blue, and painters still weren't satisfied. They got a better alternative in 1802, when the French chemist Louis Jacques Thenard invented cobalt blue. Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251971 2020-10-21 02:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847251971 Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847254298 1. Scientific success
2. The dawn of the new project 
3. Horrifying prediction 
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5. New idea  ]]> 2020-10-21 02:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/847254298 Elizabeth Arias Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454003480 Example:
Scientific Success]]> 2021-04-24 01:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454003480 (A) Imagine you're the greatest fantasy writer of your age. One day you dream up the idea of a bomb of infinite power. You call it the "atomic bomb". HG Wells first imagined a uranium-based hand grenade that "would continue to explode indefinitely" in his 1914 novel The World Set Free. He even thought it would be dropped from planes. What he couldn't predict was how a strange conjunction of his friends and acquaintances - notably Winston Churchill, who'd read all Wells's novels twice, and the physicist Leo Szilard - would turn the idea from fantasy to reality, leaving them deeply tormented by the scale of destructive power that it unleashed. Learningenglish1 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454004735 2021-04-24 01:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454004735 Rooswelt Ramon https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454005297 Horryifing prediction

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horrifying prediction]]> 2021-04-24 01:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454010428 Kathia Carrera https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1454010442 a fantasy come true

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]]> 2021-06-19 15:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615542213 Daniel Figueroa 522901181 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615542955 Horrifying prediction]]> 2021-06-19 15:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615542955 Long-term discussion https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615543619 2021-06-19 15:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615543619 Francis Caicedo franciscaicedo980 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615543758 Scientific success]]> 2021-06-19 15:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615543758 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544038 The dawn of the new project ]]> 2021-06-19 15:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544038 Christian Uvidia https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544235 New idea ]]> 2021-06-19 15:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544235 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544354 Scientific success]]> 2021-06-19 15:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544354 Francis Caicedo franciscaicedo980 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544705 The dawn of the new project]]> 2021-06-19 15:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544705 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544748  Horrifying prediction ]]> 2021-06-19 15:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544748 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544905 New idea  ]]> 2021-06-19 15:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544905 Francis Caicedo franciscaicedo980 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544964 Long-term discussion]]> 2021-06-19 15:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615544964 Daniel Figueroa 522901181 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545056 New Idea

]]> 2021-06-19 15:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545056 Francis Caicedo franciscaicedo980 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545226 Horrifying prediction]]> 2021-06-19 15:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545226 Daniel Figueroa 522901181 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545234 Long term discussion]]> 2021-06-19 15:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545234 Christian Uvdidia https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545264 Long -term discussion ]]> 2021-06-19 15:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545264 Francis Caicedo franciscaicedo980 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545768 New idea]]> 2021-06-19 15:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615545768 Chrstian Uvidia https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546317 2021-06-19 15:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546317 Daniel Figueroa 522901181 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546488 Scientific success]]> 2021-06-19 15:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546488 Scientific success https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546625 2021-06-19 15:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546625 Daniel Figueroa 522901181 https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546777 The dawn of the new project ]]> 2021-06-19 15:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615546777 Christian Uvidia https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615550451 The dawn of the new project ]]> 2021-06-19 15:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/Learningenglish1/cpb22frt6akqps55/wish/1615550451