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Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1476
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of supplementing the compensation of the Comptroller of the University of Texas from funds derived from gifts and bequests.
Date:
November 7, 1952
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Review of Corrosion of Uranium and its Alloys
One characteristic of the corrosion of uranium is the accelerating destruction of the metal under both dry and humid conditions and throughout a wide temperature range. Another corrosion property is the fracturing and fragmentizing of the oxide products. This results in an accelerating or decelerating growth law being operative at a particular time. This time is determined by whether the oxide ruptures rapidly or slowly compared to the rate of growth of the unfractured oxide. The reaction with dry air is essentially a reaction with the contained oxygen. In water, under oxygen-free conditions, linear oxidation laws are observed. In steam, because UO/ sub 2/ is the product at temperatures below 250 C and U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ at temperatures above 250 C, different reaction rates occur in the two temperature ranges. The effects of a few alloying elements on the corrosion resistance of uranium are reviewed. Wartime research indicates that small additions of aluminum, molybdenum, nickel, and titanium have a slightly beneficial effect. Niobium, silicon, and zirconium increase substantially the corrosion resistance in water provided the alloy has had adequate heat treatment. There is some information that the addition of small amounts, less than 2%, of aluminum or silicon increases the …
Date:
November 7, 1952
Creator:
Waber, James T. (James Thomas), 1920-
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library