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N-rays and became
He devised experiments in which a barely visible object was illuminated by these N-rays, and thus became " more visible ".

N-rays and some
Blondlot, Augustin Charpentier, Arsène d ' Arsonval and approximately 120 other scientists in 300 published articles claimed to be able to detect N-rays emanating from most substances, including the human body with the peculiar exceptions that they were not emitted by green wood and by some treated metals.

N-rays and science
Examples of pathological science may include homeopathy, Martian canals, N-rays, polywater, water memory, and cold fusion.
Langmuir discussed the issue of N-rays as an example of pathological science.
Another example of semantic discord can be found in N-rays under Pathological science.

N-rays and .
N-rays ( or N rays ) were a hypothesized form of radiation, described by French physicist Prosper-René Blondlot in 1903, and initially confirmed by others, but subsequently found to be illusory.
He had perceived changes in the brightness of an electric spark in a spark gap placed in an X-ray beam which he photographed, and he later attributed to the novel form of radiation, naming this the N-rays for the University of Nancy.
Blondlot claimed that N-rays were causing a small visual reaction, too small to be seen under normal illumination, but just visible when most " normal " light sources were removed and the target was just barely visible to begin with.
After a time, physicist Robert W. Wood decided to visit Blondlot's lab, which had moved on to the physical characterization of N-rays.
Blondlot replied, " That's one of the fascinating things about the N-rays.
Another claim to fame was his debunking of N-rays in 1904.
The French Academy of Sciences awarded the Prix Leconte (₣ 50, 000 ) for 1904 to Blondot, although they hedged on the reason, citing the totality of his work rather than the discovery of N-rays.
Neither individual researchers nor entire scientific communities are immune to this effect ; see N-rays and Polywater.

became and topic
The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).
The topic became disputable as soon as most potent counter-tactical ABMs started to be capable of shooting down SLBMs ( SLBMs naturally tend to be much slower than ICBMs ), nevertheless both sides continued counter-tactical ABM development.
It would have been very strange indeed for Paul to have omitted the fact that the apostles and elders of the Jerusalem church had not laid circumcision as a requirement upon the Gentiles considering the topic of the epistle after it became a controversy in Galatia.
Democracy became an important topic following Lenin's health leave ; Trotsky and Zinoviev were its main backers, but Zinoviev later changed his position when he aligned himself with Stalin.
Due to the sexual revolution and feminism, female sexual desire, which previously was not discussed or understood, became a topic for discussion.
As a result, the topic became — primarily in the USA — prematurely known as " computer science " — which, actually is like referring to surgery as " knife science "— and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment.
However, because the Council of Nicaea had not clarified the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, it became a topic of debate.
Liquid crystal materials became a topic of research into the development of flat panel electronic displays beginning in 1962 at RCA Laboratories.
Not surprisingly network economics became a hot topic after the diffusion of the Internet across academia.
Computer programming, offshore outsourcing, and Foreign Worker Visas became a controversial topic after the crash of the dot com bubble left many programmers without work or with lower wages.
However, because Wiener's work on the topic was limited, the established name became just Banach spaces.
The Oates case eventually became a topic of the U. S. Supreme Court ’ s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.
The show became popular in Arab countries, with around 18 million viewers, partly because, according to analysts such as University of Pennsylvania professor Marwan Kraidy, it was able to combine the excitement of reality television with a traditional, culturally relevant topic.
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro coined the term " Knowledge Discovery in Databases " for the first workshop on the same topic ( 1989 ) and this term became more popular in AI and Machine Learning Community.
Patterns of biodiversity also became a topic of interest.
After this, Julian's name spread rapidly as she became a topic in many lectures and writings.
The clinical study Human Sexual Response was published by Masters and Johnson in 1966, and the topic suddenly became more commonplace in America.
Been's subsequent sacking became global news, if only because reports of Been's firing quickly became a trending topic on Twitter, leaving people around the world to wonder who exactly Mario Been was.
Helped by the many speeches and interviews given by Fortuyn, immigration issues became the major topic of the national political agenda, thereby forcing other parties to react.
The disappearance of Chandra Levy became a national topic of the news media in the summer of 2001, with 63 percent of Americans closely following the case.
During the ensuing crackdown by the KMT administration in what became known as the 228 incident, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the incident became a taboo topic of discussion for the entire martial law era.
The topic subsequently became increasingly important in the early 1980s.

became and some
Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
Since the concept of high fidelity became important some dozen years ago, the claims of technical improvements have multiplied tenfold.
Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
The X3 committee made other changes, including other new characters ( the brace and vertical line characters ), renaming some control characters ( SOM became start of header ( SOH )) and moving or removing others ( RU was removed ).
Semitic Arameans encroached over the borders of south central Anatolia in the century or so after the fall of the Hittite empire, and some of the Neo-Hittite states in this region became an amalgam of Hittites and Arameans.
Peasant parties rarely had any power before World War I, but some became influential in the interwar era, especially in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
The Alemanni thus were probably not primarily the Hermunduri, although some elements of them may have been present in the mix of peoples at that time that became Alemannian.
The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).
Not long after the burning of ten of their members ( 1210 ), the sect itself lost its importance, while some of the surviving Amalricians became Brethren of the Free Spirit.
When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.
He became known as " The Playboy Playwright " and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué at the time.
Gauntlett also led the sales team, and after some development and a lot of publicity when it became the world ’ s fastest 4-seater production car, was able to sell the Aston Martin Lagonda in Oman, Kuwait, and Qatar.
Yet Arnulf did achieve some successes, in particular in 895, when Bohemia broke away from Great Moravia and became his vassal.
These became established in the 19th century, but the origin of these breeds is uncertain, and a matter of some speculation.
The problem became so large that some carriers required the use of a PIN before making calls.
When he became a Franciscan and thus created a formal Franciscan school of theology at Paris, it was soon clear that his students lacked some of the basic tools for the discipline.
Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.
Bad Godesberg and Beuel became districts ( Stadtbezirke ) of Bonn with some independence and populations of about 70, 000 each.
As Whorf became more influenced by positivist science he also distanced himself from some approaches to language and meaning that he saw as lacking in rigor and insight.

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