The NBS Standard Hygrometer (open access)

The NBS Standard Hygrometer

Report describing a gravimetric hygrometer that serves as the NBS standard instrument for the measurement of the moisture content of gases on an absolute basis in terms of mixing ratio (mass water vapor/ unit mass of dry gas). The National Bureau of Standards and other laboratory reference and working instruments are compared and calibrated with this instrument. The measuring operation involves the absorption of the water vapor from a water vapor-gas mixture by a solid desiccant and the determination of the mass of this water vapor by precision weighing; it also involves the determination of the volume of the associated gas of known density by counting the fillings of two calibrated stainless steel cylinders. The construction and operation of the instrument is described. Discussions of the tests and calibrations of component parts, and of the sources of errors also are included. There is also an analysis of the random and systematic errors effecting the overall accuracy in the determination of mixing ratio.
Date: May 1, 1964
Creator: Wexler, Arnold & Hyland, Richard W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-entry Flight Demonstration Number One (RFD-1): Design, Development, and Performance of the Re-entry Vehicle (open access)

Re-entry Flight Demonstration Number One (RFD-1): Design, Development, and Performance of the Re-entry Vehicle

This report documents the design, development, and performance of the flight vehicle for Re-entry Flight Demonstration Number One (RFD-1).
Date: May 1964
Creator: Erickson, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactor Technology Report Number 24: Metallurgy (open access)

Reactor Technology Report Number 24: Metallurgy

Quarterly report issued by the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory to report to the industry on developments in unclassified reactor technology. This issue focuses on metallurgy information.
Date: May 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SNAP 2: Structural and Dynamic Analysis (open access)

SNAP 2: Structural and Dynamic Analysis

Abstract: The structural design criteria and the system basic loads for the SNAP 2 compact power unit are presented.
Date: May 1, 1964
Creator: Castle, R. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Multi-Phase Ejectors for Freezing Process Desalination (open access)

Study of Multi-Phase Ejectors for Freezing Process Desalination

From Introduction: "In this report we will present the results of extending our study of MPE desalination systems to include freezing processes."
Date: May 1964
Creator: Kemper, Clarence A.; Harper, George F.; Gouse, S. William & Leigh, John H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Piping Failures for the Reactor Primary Coolant Pipe Rupture Study (open access)

Survey of Piping Failures for the Reactor Primary Coolant Pipe Rupture Study

From summary: "An industrial piping failure survey covering 701 contacts in electric utilities, petroleum refineries, chemical processing, marine applications, architect-engineers, component manufacturers, piping fabricating and erectors, insurance companies, and others was conducted as part of the Reactor Primary Coolant Rupture Study."
Date: May 1964
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temperature Distribution in the Crystallization of Undercooled Liquids in Cylindrical Tubes (open access)

Temperature Distribution in the Crystallization of Undercooled Liquids in Cylindrical Tubes

From Introduction: "The major difficulty in interpreting the results obtained by this simple experimental technique is the specification of the temperature at the crystal-liquid interface. Since, the liquid-to-solid transformation is exothermic the temperature in the vicinity of the interface will exceed the temperature in the vicinity of the interface will exceed the temperature of the bulk of the cooling bath, which is the quantity most conveniently measured and most frequently reported."
Date: May 1964
Creator: Brian, P. L. T. & Sperry, P. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas-Phase Radiolysis of Propane (open access)

Gas-Phase Radiolysis of Propane

Abstract. the direct and inert-gas radiolysis, as well as the vacuum ultra-violet photolysis of CD3CH2CD3, CH3CD2CH3 and C3H2+C3D3 mixtures have been investigated in the presence of radical scavengers. The major conclusions are : (a) at atmospheric pressures, neutral propane decomposition contributes to the observed products although to a lesser extent than parent ion decompositions ; (b) a variation in pressure has a pronounced effect on the fragmentation of the parent ion ; (c) the hydrogen atoms in the ethyl ion are randomized in the direct as well as in the inert-gas sensitized radiolysis ; (d) rearrangement in the parent ion is of minor importance in the radiolysis ; (e) although the formation of propylene is related to the propyl ion, it is not necessarily produced by the neutralization of this ion.
Date: May 31, 1963
Creator: Ausloos, Pierre J.; Lias, Sharon G., 1935- & Sandoval, L. B., (Mrs.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Superheat Project. Internal Steam Separation Development of Radial Vane Steam Separators (open access)

Nuclear Superheat Project. Internal Steam Separation Development of Radial Vane Steam Separators

This technical report describes the development, design, operation, and performance of a full-circle, radial-vane steam separator for the boiling water section of a nuclear superheat reactor. Steam-water tests of this model have demonstrated that is has vane capacity in excess of that required for the 300-Mx(e) separate superheat reactor and for the 300-Mw mixed spectrum superheat reactor. It is proposed that the vane capacity requirement of the 600 Mw(e) separate superheat reactor may be attained by increasing the nozzle length.
Date: May 31, 1963
Creator: Moen, R. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Radioactivity-Level Waste Treatment. Part II: Pilot Plant Demonstration of the Removal of Activity from Low-Level Process Wastes by a Scavenging-Precipitation Ion-Exchange Process (open access)

Low-Radioactivity-Level Waste Treatment. Part II: Pilot Plant Demonstration of the Removal of Activity from Low-Level Process Wastes by a Scavenging-Precipitation Ion-Exchange Process

Report documenting the process of decontaminating low-activity fuel waste water via the Scavenging-Precipitation Ion-Exchange process. This includes analyses of the costs of the process as well as a description of the operation of the pilot plant.
Date: May 27, 1963
Creator: Brooksbank, R. E.; Browder, F. N.; Holcomb, R. R. & Whitson, W. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Physics Instrument Manual (open access)

Health Physics Instrument Manual

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing a Health Physics Instrument Manual. Descriptions, characteristics, and applications of different instruments are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 16, 1963
Creator: Davis, D. M. & Gupton, E. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Void Fraction Measurement System (open access)

Dynamic Void Fraction Measurement System

Abstract: Various methods and techniques of measuring void fractions in boiling heat transfer media are discussed.
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Kendron, J. H.; Stoner, E. E. & Taylor, G. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Superheat Quarterly Project Report: Fifteenth Quarter, January-March 1963 (open access)

Nuclear Superheat Quarterly Project Report: Fifteenth Quarter, January-March 1963

From introduction: "This is the fifteenth in a series of quarterly reports which cover the progress and results from the conceptual designs, economic evaluations and research and development work performed by the General Electric Company as part of Contract AT(01-3)-189, Project Agreement No. 13."
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Flock, W. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Superheat Quarterly Project Report: Thirteenth Quarter, July-September 1962 (open access)

Nuclear Superheat Quarterly Project Report: Thirteenth Quarter, July-September 1962

From introduction: "This is the thirteenth in a series of quarterly reports which will cover the progress and results from the conceptual design, economic evaluations and research and development work performed by the General Electric Company as part of the Nuclear Superheat Project."
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Pennington, R. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reactor Development Program Progress Report: April 1963 (open access)

Reactor Development Program Progress Report: April 1963

Report issued by the Argonne National Laboratory discussing progress made by the Reactor Development Program during April 1963. Reactor physics, experiments, and safety studies are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Adams, R. M. & Glassner, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure-Volume-Temperature Measurements on Solids (open access)

Pressure-Volume-Temperature Measurements on Solids

From abstract: "The results of recent measurements on the equations of state of sodium and xenon are discussed. The experimental data for each of these are analyzed to show that the isothermal compressibility is solely a function of volume within experimental accuracy. The basic differences between the low temperature PV relationships for sodium and xenon are shown to be easily understandable in terms of the elementary theories of these substances. The range of experimental pressures (to 20 kbars) and temperatures (20°K to the triple point) is sufficiently great so as to produce significant changes in the lattice thermal properties in each case. These changes are indicated through the use of zero pressure heat capacity data in combination with the equation of state data to calculate the volume and temperature dependence of the Debye Θ. The result is quite spectacular for xenon, where a pressure of 20 kbars roughly doubles ΘD."
Date: May 14, 1963
Creator: Swenson, C. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Pulsed Neutron Application to Power Reactor Start-Up Procedures. Fourth Quarterly Progress Report, January 1-March 31, 1963 (open access)

Development of Pulsed Neutron Application to Power Reactor Start-Up Procedures. Fourth Quarterly Progress Report, January 1-March 31, 1963

Activities in a program to develop techniques in the use of pulsed neutron sources to measure shutdown parameters related to large thermal power reactors are reported. The experimental work centers around aspects of detecting neutrons in the presence of 10/sup 7/ r/hr gamma fields. Boric acid experiments and Humboldt Bay experiments are reported.
Date: May 13, 1963
Creator: Garelis, Edward & Meyer, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feed Materials Production Center Summary Technical Report: January 1, 1963-March 31, 1963 (open access)

Feed Materials Production Center Summary Technical Report: January 1, 1963-March 31, 1963

This is a summary report of various technical projects relating to uranium.
Date: May 10, 1963
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrophotometric Determination of Perchlorate (open access)

Spectrophotometric Determination of Perchlorate

Technical report. Form Abstract : "Perchlorate is extracted from aqueous solution by n-butyronitrile as ferrous 1,10-phenanthroline perchlorate. The amount of perchlorate is calculated from spectrophotometric measurement of the absorbance of the extract. Moderate to large amounts of chloride, sulfate, or nitrate cause little or no interference. Chlorate is slightly extracted but the interference can be corrected."
Date: May 10, 1963
Creator: Fritz, James S. & Campbell, Patricia A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trimethyllactamide (open access)

Trimethyllactamide

Technical report. From "3. Methods of Preparation" : "Pivadehyde cyanohydrin can be prepared by the reaction of pivadehyde with anhydrous HCN2 or by the sodium bisulfite process. Trimethyllactamide can be prepared by hydrolysis of pivaldehyde cyanohydrin with cold concentrated sulfuric acid. The procedure described here differs in the scale of preparation an in the use of cold fusing hydrochloric acid for hydrolizing the cyanohydrin."
Date: May 9, 1963
Creator: Powell, Jack E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Binding in the Water Molecule (open access)

Chemical Binding in the Water Molecule

From Introduction : "This analysis partitions the electron density and the electronic pair density of the molecule into components corresponding promoted atomic states, to quasiclassical coulombic interactions of these promoted states, and to interactions resulting from the sharing of electrons between atoms."
Date: May 3, 1963
Creator: Edmiston, Clyde & Ruedenberg, Klaus, 1920-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mass Spectrometric Evidence for the Pyridoxal-Leucine Reaction Mechanism (open access)

Mass Spectrometric Evidence for the Pyridoxal-Leucine Reaction Mechanism

From Abstract : "The mass spectrum of leucine-dn, prepared by the reaction of pyridoxal with excess leucine in D2O medium, has been established using the crucible source techniques. ... The reaction can be used for the selective α, β-deuteration of amino acids other than leucine.
Date: May 3, 1963
Creator: Junk, G. A. & Svec, H. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Normal Elliptic Integrals of the First and Second Kinds (open access)

Normal Elliptic Integrals of the First and Second Kinds

From Introduction : "In this paper we describe a choice of normal elliptic integrals which appears to be very well suited for use in integral tables as well as for numerical work."
Date: May 3, 1963
Creator: Carlson, B. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reinvestigation of the CC Stretching and CH3 Rocking Assignments In Isopropyl and tert-Butyl Halides (open access)

Reinvestigation of the CC Stretching and CH3 Rocking Assignments In Isopropyl and tert-Butyl Halides

From report: "In a series of paper (1-3) Sheppard has analyzed the vibrational spectra of simple alkyl halides. During the course of an investigation of the spectra of similar alkyl thiocyanates certain anomalies appeared in the assignments of the CC stretching and methyl rocking vibrations in isopropyl and tert.-butyl halides."
Date: May 3, 1963
Creator: Hirschmann, R. P. & Kniseley, R. N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library