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Interview with Linus Pauling. August 23, 1991. Interview by Thomas Hager for use in "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling," (Simon & Schuster, 1995). A Wide Array of War Projects. (1:07)

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Thomas Hager: So, the various kinds of powder research, and propellants and explosives, the oxypolygelatin work, the oxygen meter, the immunological studies, and the coding work, the secret writing. Anything that falls outside of those categories?

Linus Pauling: Well, let me see. I had Bill Lipscomb working on a separate contract, dealing with aerosols, determining size distribution in aerosols. And I had Norton Wilson, I think, working on the project of growing aluminum phosphate crystals to replace quartz crystals.

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Date: August 23, 1991
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