Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas (open access)

Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas

Article about Natural Gas Reserves production and Consumption in Dallas, Fort Worth in Texas
Date: February 1916
Creator: Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley) & Matson, George Charlton
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cost Keeping for Small Metal Mines (open access)

Cost Keeping for Small Metal Mines

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over the accounting for small metal mines. As stated in the introduction, "this report outlines methods of cost keeping suitable for metal mines of small or moderate size and presents various forms and cost sheets that have been found useful in actual practice" (p. 5). This paper includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1919
Creator: Pickering, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traps for Saving Gas at Oil Wells (open access)

Traps for Saving Gas at Oil Wells

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over the use of gas traps at oil wells. Different types of traps are presented and discussed. This paper includes photographs, and illustrations.
Date: February 1919
Creator: Hamilton, Walter Raleigh
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Interferential Dilatometer (open access)

A New Interferential Dilatometer

Scientific paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over development of a dilatometer. The instrument is used in tests of thermal expansion. The methods are presented and discussed. This paper includes an illustration.
Date: February 28, 1920
Creator: Priest, Irwin G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of the Reversal of Air Flow Upon the Discharge Coefficient of Durley Orifices (open access)

Effect of the Reversal of Air Flow Upon the Discharge Coefficient of Durley Orifices

Note presenting an experiment to obtain information regarding the relationship between the coefficients for flow in the two directions through an inlet. The results indicate that the ratio of the orifice discharge coefficient from standard orifice to the discharge coefficient from reverse flow is always less than unity, but approaches unity with increasing ratio of box area to orifice area, and that even for a ratio of areas as low as twenty the ratios of the coefficients is not much less than unity.
Date: February 1921
Creator: Ware, Marsden
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation and Uses of Tar and its Simple Crude Derivatives (open access)

Preparation and Uses of Tar and its Simple Crude Derivatives

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies of coal tars. As stated in the introduction, "this paper discusses the uses to which some of the various tars are put and shows briefly the usual methods of working up tar into some of its simple or easily prepared derivatives, for which a market can generally be found" (p. 5). This paper includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 1922
Creator: Odell, W. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing of Fire-Clay Brick with Special Reference to their Use in Coal-Fired Boiler Settings (open access)

Testing of Fire-Clay Brick with Special Reference to their Use in Coal-Fired Boiler Settings

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Standards over studies conducted on fire-clay bricks. The results of the studies are discussed. This paper includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1925
Creator: Geller, R. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Costs of Stripping and Mining at the United Verde Open-Pit Mine, Jerome, Arizona (open access)

Methods and Costs of Stripping and Mining at the United Verde Open-Pit Mine, Jerome, Arizona

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mining practices and expenses of the United Verde open-pit mine west of Jerome, Arizona. As stated in the introduction, "the purpose of this paper is to present the methods used in developing and operating the mine, and to discuss the problems encountered" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: February 1930
Creator: Alenius, E. M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coal-Mine Fatalities in January, 1931 (open access)

Coal-Mine Fatalities in January, 1931

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the coal mine related deaths during the month of January, 1931. The number of fatalities and their causes are presented. This report includes tables.
Date: February 1931
Creator: Adams, William Waugh & Chenoweth, L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Industries Survey of the United States: Idaho, Shoshone County, Coeur d'Alene District: the Silver Belt and the Sunshine Mine of the Coeur dÁlene District (open access)

Mineral Industries Survey of the United States: Idaho, Shoshone County, Coeur d'Alene District: the Silver Belt and the Sunshine Mine of the Coeur dÁlene District

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mineral production of mines in Shoshone County, Idaho. Mining and milling methods of these mines are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and a photograph.
Date: February 1936
Creator: Julihn, C. E. & Horton, F. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of the Explosives Division, Fiscal Year 1936 (open access)

Annual Report of the Explosives Division, Fiscal Year 1936

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the U.S. Explosives Division, and the chemical and physical testing conducted. The properties of the studies conducted during 1936 are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 1937
Creator: Huff, Wilbert James
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stemming in Metal Mines. Progress Report 3: Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Stemming and No Stemming When Used with 60 Percent Ammonia Gelatin Dynamite at the Mount Weather Testing Adit (open access)

Stemming in Metal Mines. Progress Report 3: Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Stemming and No Stemming When Used with 60 Percent Ammonia Gelatin Dynamite at the Mount Weather Testing Adit

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the progress made in metal-mine stemming. Previous reports have been presented impartially, or under different procedures. This report contains updated progress results from current procedures and mine conditions. The report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1942
Creator: Johnson, John A.; Agnew, Wing G. & Mosier, McHenry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on High Concentration Deuterium by Catalytic Exchange Reactions (open access)

Preliminary Report on High Concentration Deuterium by Catalytic Exchange Reactions

From abstract: "This report contains the theoretical analysis of a plant to concentrate deuterium from 2 atoms% to 90 atoms% by the NH3-H2 exchange reaction."
Date: February 4, 1943
Creator: Mayer, Harris & Bonner, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effective Temperature of Neutrons in a Lattice (open access)

Effective Temperature of Neutrons in a Lattice

The average energies of neutrons emitted from a graphite column at 22 degrees C were compared by measurement of the cross section of boron for neutrons which are stopped by cadmium. At a distance from the neutron source great enough to insure that the neutrons were in thermal equilibrium the average energies of the emerging neutrons were found to be proportional to the temperature within the limits of the experimental error. A measurement made with boron absorbers which had been thus standardized in the graphite column indicated neutrons emerging from the chain reacting pile to have an average temperature approximate 60 +- 50 degrees above that of thermal neutrons emerging from the graphite column at 22 degrees C. Such a measurement made inside the chain reacting pile indicated the average temperature of neutrons therein to be about 65 degrees +- 15 degrees above the average temperature of neutrons in the graphite column.
Date: February 10, 1943
Creator: Woods, L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temperature Coefficient of the Reproduction Factor for Different Lattice Arrangements (open access)

Temperature Coefficient of the Reproduction Factor for Different Lattice Arrangements

The temperature coefficient is calculated for various lattice arrangements, taking into account the variation of [formula], suggested by Fermi. Four contributions are included: leakage, levelling of the dip in thermal neutron density in the lump, resonance absorption, and hardening of the neutrons as they penetrate a metal lump. The departure of neutron temperature from lattice temperature decreases the total coefficient. Values are given for 3 typical piles; in general, the larger the uranium elements, the less stable the pile. A rod lattice tends to be more stable. A pile with metal lumps over 50 lbs. will be unstable.
Date: February 10, 1943
Creator: Morrison, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Density UO2 Pile (open access)

Low-Density UO2 Pile

The multiplication factor and minimum pile size for a multiplying pile using UO2 powder of density 1 have been computed. It appears that a k of 1.0177 is possible for a volume ration of V/V001=3.33.
Date: February 24, 1943
Creator: Ibser, H. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report of Research and Technologic Work on Coal: Fiscal Year 1943 (open access)

Annual Report of Research and Technologic Work on Coal: Fiscal Year 1943

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the annual report over the research and technology of coal during 1943. The report describes mining methods, and properties of coal. This report includes tables, illustrations, photographs, and a map.
Date: February 1944
Creator: Fieldner, Arno Carl; Beltz, J. C. & Fisher, P. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies on Explosives and Explosions, Fiscal Year 1943 (open access)

Studies on Explosives and Explosions, Fiscal Year 1943

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the documented explosives testing during 1943. Properties of explosives tested are presented. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: February 1944
Creator: Huff, Wilbert James
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analytical Method for Determining Hydrogen in Tuballoy (open access)

An Analytical Method for Determining Hydrogen in Tuballoy

Technical report describing a gasometrical method for the determination of H2 in extruded U rods.
Date: February 9, 1944
Creator: Russell, H. W. & Nelson, H. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Hydride, a Review to January 1, 1944 (open access)

Uranium Hydride, a Review to January 1, 1944

Abstract. A review of all work on uranium hydride published in the CC, CT, CN and CE reports to January 1, 1944, is presented. Some additional information not yet published has been included, so this report includes all data known from the above sources and at Ames to the above date. This report supersedes all previous report on uranium hydride coming out of the Ames laboratory.
Date: February 10, 1944
Creator: Newton, A. S.; Warf, J. C.; Johnson, O. & Nottorf, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fission Neutron Spectrum of 25 (open access)

The Fission Neutron Spectrum of 25

Abstract: "Photographic plates have been used to measure the energy of neutrons from the fission of 25. The spectrum as inferred from the ranges of 850 protons recoiling in the forward direction shows a very wide maximum at ~1.5 Mev with an exponentially decreasing high energy tail which extends beyond 7 Mev. The minimum energy neutrons recorded were ~700 kv. If the spectrum is extrapolated to zero, one finds that this average neutron energy is about 1.85 Mev. The stopping power of the plates was calibrated by the use of monochromatic neutrons from the Li-7(pn) Be-7 reaction and the d-d reaction."
Date: February 11, 1944
Creator: Richards, Hugh T. & Perlman, Isadore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recalculation of the Critical Size and Multiplication Constant of a Homogeneous UO2 - D2O Mixtures (open access)

Recalculation of the Critical Size and Multiplication Constant of a Homogeneous UO2 - D2O Mixtures

The multiplication constant and optimal concentration of a slurry pile is recalculated on the basis of Mitchell's recent experiments on resonance absorption. The smallest chain reacting unit contains 45 to 55 m3 of D2O.
Date: February 11, 1944
Creator: Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995; Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006 & Stephenson, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity Induced in Commercial Materials (open access)

Radioactivity Induced in Commercial Materials

Six structural materials (aluminum 2S, aluminum 72S, copper, iron, steel, lead and bismuth) were irradiated for about 100 kilowatt hours in the center of the Argonne pile. The alpha and gamma decays were then followed for 130 days on Geiger counters and are presented here graphically as number of rays per minute per gram per kilowatt hour vs. time of decay. A quantitative interpretation of the gamma-ray decay curves gave fair agreement with the chemical analysis of impurities found in the materials.
Date: February 12, 1944
Creator: Seren, Leo, 1918-; Sturm, W.; Moyer, W.; Miller, G. & Jordan, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metallurgical Laboratory, Chemical Research - Radiation Chemistry, the Effect of Radiation on Water and Aqueous Solutions of Inorganic Substances (open access)

Metallurgical Laboratory, Chemical Research - Radiation Chemistry, the Effect of Radiation on Water and Aqueous Solutions of Inorganic Substances

Technical report summarizing our knowledge of the chemical effects of ionizing radiation upon water and upon aqueous solutions of inorganic compounds. The types of radiation considered are beta rays, gamma and X rays, and heavy particles, notably neutrons, deuterons, alpha rays and fission recoils.
Date: February 22, 1944
Creator: Allen, A. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library