Music: Atomic Melody

Dr. Donald Hatch Andrews, 32, Johns Hopkins chemist, announced last week that he has transposed the inaudible high pitch of atomic vibrations into piano sounds. The quavers of grain alcohol thus became a harmonic chord out of which Professor Andrews composed a pretty melody. Water's translated sound was a soft murmur, wood alcohol sounded harsh and sharp, gasoline was a crash.

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