Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1945, activities, organizational leadership, finance, service, public and local relations, other information about scouting programs.

Technical report: Measurements have been made on the equilibrium between Cu, Cu2+, U4+, and UO22+ in H2SO4 in an attempt to establish the value of the U4+ - UO22+ couple potential. The value of the formal potential for the U3+ - U4+ couple in 1N HCl at 0 degrees C was determined to be + 0.65 v.

Newsletter of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research outlining statistics and research related to business in Texas.

From introduction: "The concluding remarks of the report on the electron diffraction study of UF6 suggest two alternate explanations for the apparent discrepancy between the structure proposed for this compound as deduced from X-ray diffraction work on single crystals and from the electron diffraction investigation of the vapor. The second explanation is based on the premise that the difference may be due to essentially unlike methods of treating the diffraction data. In this report we shall analyze X-ray powder photographs following a scheme parallel to that used in the analysis of the electron diffraction data, to check whether this particular explanation is tenable."

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It was agreed during a meeting on July 10, 1945 that an investigation should be made by the Technical Department to determine how fast and in what fashion the temperature of the effluent water from the 100 Areas is dissipated in the columbia River. A preliminary report on this investigation is submitted herewith for review by interested parties.

Abstract: "A method of recovering the tuballoy from the trap washes of the high temperature salvage chlorinator is described."

A report describing the methods and results of a chemical copper determination. A colorimetric method was considered the most feasible. Results and further discussion are provided in the report.

Report discussing the design, construction, and testing of a pilot plant for the fluidization of uranium trioxide to create uranium tetrachloride. The plant yielded 97.0% "immediately available as product."

Abstract: "A phase diagram for the uranium-cobalt system has been constructed, based on thermal, microscopic, X-ray and chemical data. The results indicate the existence of three compounds and two eutectics, one of which shows a lowering of the melting point of uranium by approximately 400 C."

Summary: "An apparatus is described which applies alternate pulses from two ion beams to a galvanometer network. The isotopic ratio is read directly from a potentiometer. The comparison is independent of ion beam intensity. This method is not practical for application to the standard Nier assay instrument because of the low ion currents normally used. It is suggested that this comparison method may have utility in a spectrometer utilizing a high intensity ion source such as capillary ore or condensed spark."

The following report discusses a method to analyze boron in TF6, including an evaporation method for developing the boron-curcumin color and distillation of boron in TF6 samples.

The following report was undertaken to overcome poisoning difficulties that are caused by passage of solutions containing nickel through the Jones reductor/zinc amalgam reductors.

The following report provides information that follows investigations of radioactivity in certain rocks found in Wyoming and South Dakota during the summer of 1945. Uranium is the principal element in this report with thorium as secondary.

The following report provides findings of trace elements from investigations on Cache and upper Peters Creeks in the Tentana District, Alaska after discovering radioactive minerals within Geological Survey's collection of Alaskan placer deposits. This investigation took place in the summer of 1945.

From summary: Union Mines' examination of Arizona's pegmatites, lode deposits of the central and southeastern parts of the state, and heavy mineral concentrates from few placer deposits indicates that SOM is practically non-existent in the first two and that minor amounts of monazite and possibly other S-37 minerals are present in the last.

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