Influence of Total Surface Beta Irradiation on the Gross Metabolic Pattern of Rats (open access)

Influence of Total Surface Beta Irradiation on the Gross Metabolic Pattern of Rats

The following report records the study of albino rats subjected to beta rays and analyzes the skin reactions and metabolic patterns.
Date: July 30, 1946
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiocarbon from Pile Graphite; Chemical Methods for its Concentration (open access)

Radiocarbon from Pile Graphite; Chemical Methods for its Concentration

Abstract. Samples of pile graphite, irradiated in a test-hole at Hanford for 15 months, have been assayed for radioactive C14, yielding 0.38 ± 0.04 microcuries per gram. At this level of activity, the pile graphite contains very valuable amounts of C14. The relation between the above assay and the probable average assay of pile graphite is discussed, and it is concluded that the latter is almost certainly above 0.3 uc/ gram. Controlled oxidation of this graphite, either with oxygen at ~ 750°C, or with chromic acid "cleaning solution" at room temperature, yields early fractions which are highly enriched in C14. Concentrations of 5-fold with oxygen, and 50-fold with CRO{sub3}, have been observed. The relation between the observed enrichment and the Wigner effect is discussed, and a mechanism accounting for the observations put forward. According to this, about 25% of the stable carbon atoms in the lattice have been displaced by Wigner effect, a large fraction of which have healed the migrating to crystal edges. All the C14 atoms have been displaced, and the same fraction of these migrate to the edges. The enrichment then results from surface oxidation, in the oxygen case. Predictions are made on the basis of this …
Date: October 10, 1946
Creator: Arnold, James R. & Libby, Willard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flood-Prevention Projects at Pennsylvania Anthracite Mines: A Preliminary Study (open access)

Flood-Prevention Projects at Pennsylvania Anthracite Mines: A Preliminary Study

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over flood-prevention methods at Pennsylvania anthracite mines. The flood-prevention projects are discussed. This report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: March 1946
Creator: Ash, S. H. & Westfield, James
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Half-Life of Polonium (open access)

Half-Life of Polonium

Abstract: "The half-life of polonium has been measured by a calorimetric method using samples several thousand times larger than have been previously available. The value is found to be 138.3 +/- 0.1% days."
Date: September 9, 1946
Creator: Beamer, William H. & Easton, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Tin in California (open access)

Survey of Tin in California

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on a survey of tin deposits in California. A focus on tin deposits in Kern and San Bernardino Counties are presented. The report includes two maps.
Date: April 1946
Creator: Bedford, Robert H. & Johnson, F. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Motor-Gasoline Survey: Summer 1945 (open access)

National Motor-Gasoline Survey: Summer 1945

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the motor fuels sold in the summer of 1945. Analysis of the properties of fuel samples collected is presented. This report includes tables, graphs, and a map.
Date: January 1946
Creator: Blade, O. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Motor-Gasoline Survey: Winter 1945-46 (open access)

National Motor-Gasoline Survey: Winter 1945-46

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the motor fuels sold during the winter of 1945-46. The characteristics of the fuels sold, and the regions they were sold in are listed. This report includes tables, and maps.
Date: July 1946
Creator: Blade, O. C. & Sponsler, C. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Board of Regents of the Texas State Teachers Colleges Biennial Report: 1944-1946 (open access)

Board of Regents of the Texas State Teachers Colleges Biennial Report: 1944-1946

Biennial report of the Board of Regents of the Texas State Teachers Colleges discussing activities of state teachers' colleges and providing an overview of relevant statistics and financial information related to state funding.
Date: 1946
Creator: Board of Regents of the Texas State Teachers Colleges
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1945 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1945

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.
Date: March 26, 1946
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preliminary Report : Placer Deposits of Monazite (open access)

Preliminary Report : Placer Deposits of Monazite

The following report provides information and results of an investigation on heavy mineral concentrates available in the placer deposits of North Carolina during the summer of 1946.
Date: September 1946
Creator: Brill, K. G., Jr. & Carroll, G. V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversion of Uranium Hexafluoride to Uranium Trioxide (open access)

Conversion of Uranium Hexafluoride to Uranium Trioxide

The following report describes the methods of chemical conversion of uranium fluoride to uranium trioxide.
Date: September 5, 1946
Creator: Brown, K. B. & Larson, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Routing Upon Temperature of Cooling Stream (open access)

Effect of Routing Upon Temperature of Cooling Stream

With discussion under way concerning power production by chain reacting piles, it becomes pertinent to consider the ration of the temperature of the hottest spot in the pile to the average exit temperature of the cooling stream. This is important because the temperature of the hottest spot in the pile is one of the limiting factors in determining the maximum power at which a pile can be operated. However, the higher the temperature of the emerging cooling stream, the more efficient can be the thermal engine operated by it. Thus the ideal situation is to have the average exit temperature of the cooling stream as near as possible to the hottest temperature of the hottest spot in the pile.
Date: February 14, 1946
Creator: Cahn, Albert S., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diagnosis of Instability of an Assay Mass Spectrometer (open access)

Diagnosis of Instability of an Assay Mass Spectrometer

This report deals solely with the systematic diagnosis and location of the cause of instability of an assay mass spectrometer. It is based around a chart that illustrates the general practices followed in the laboratory.
Date: 1946
Creator: Cameron, A. E. & Happ, G. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Determination of the U-235 Content in Highly Impoverished Material (open access)

A Determination of the U-235 Content in Highly Impoverished Material

Introduction: "The product of a special run made in XAX was submitted to the Assay Department for a determination of the residual content of the 235 isotope. The charge material on this run was impoverished, with a ratio of approximately 1:2,000. The sample was submitted in the form of purified T3O8."
Date: 1946
Creator: Cameron, A. E. & Hibbs, Roger F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Isotopic Examination of Tantalum (open access)

Isotopic Examination of Tantalum

Introduction: "The ionization region in the Nier mass spectrometer is customarily constructed of copper. Various other metals were tried for this purpose; among them tantalum and molybdenum, with both metals it was found that a spectrum of the fluoride of the metal appeared when uranium hexafluoride was admitted. It was thus possible to produce tantalum fluoride with comparative ease and to make a critical examination of the mass spectrum to set an upper limit of abundance of tantalum isotopes. For positive identification, a line must appear in all ion positions in the same abundance, relative to the main line. It must be shown that any lines which appear are not contributed by other elements or compounds."
Date: January 18, 1946
Creator: Cameron, Alan E. & White, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mass Spectrometric Determination of Isotopic Ratio with Varying Ion Beam Intensity (open access)

Mass Spectrometric Determination of Isotopic Ratio with Varying Ion Beam Intensity

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."
Date: March 6, 1946
Creator: Cameron, Alan E. & White, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ohmic Characteristics of High Megohm Resistors (open access)

Ohmic Characteristics of High Megohm Resistors

The following report discusses ohmic characteristics in resistors, including methods for determining the polarization characteristics of high megohm resistors that may determine the suitability of these resistors for spectrometric measurements.
Date: April 3, 1946
Creator: Cameron, Angus Ewan, 1906- & White, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of Small Amounts of Thorium in Some Uranium Materials (open access)

The Determination of Small Amounts of Thorium in Some Uranium Materials

Abstract: "A method for the determination of small quantities of thorium in the presence of large quantities of uranium is presented. Solid samples are dissolved in an appropriate acid. Reducible metals are removed by means of a mercury cathode. Excess acid is removed by fuming to dryness. The residue is dissolved in water and made alkaline with saturated ammonium carbonate solution, thus complexing the uranium and permitting the precipitation of thorium hydroxide with the aid of an aluminum hydroxide carrier. Thorium is determined colorimetrically with thoron."
Date: 1946
Creator: Christopherson, E. W.; Woodard, R. W. & Larson, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral-Dressing Characteristics of the Red Iron Ores of Birmingham, Alabama (open access)

Mineral-Dressing Characteristics of the Red Iron Ores of Birmingham, Alabama

From Introduction: "The scope of this paper is such that it was deemed advisable to group the contents into several main sections. They are: Section I. Geography and Geology. Section II. Historical Review. (a) Mining and Smelting in Alabama. (b) Milling. (c) Summary of Milling Research. These two sections are primarily a bibliography and summary of the research on the Birmingham Red Mountain ores up to the middle 1940's."
Date: 1946
Creator: Coghill, Will H. & Coe, G. Dale
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Acetate Complexes of Uranyl Ion and the Solubility of Sodium Uranyl Acetate (open access)

The Acetate Complexes of Uranyl Ion and the Solubility of Sodium Uranyl Acetate

The following report provides data based off of the solubility of sodium uranyl acetate that was measured under a variety if conditions.
Date: January 14, 1946
Creator: Connick, R. E. & Wahl, Arthur C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Deposition of Plutonium and Certain Fission Products in Bone as a Decontamination Problem (open access)

The Deposition of Plutonium and Certain Fission Products in Bone as a Decontamination Problem

The following report discusses the deposition of radioactive elements during a nuclear fission in the skeleton. Studies are concerned with chronic effects of toxic radiation developing within the bone marrow and decontaminating the cells.
Date: May 15, 1946
Creator: Copp, D. Harold; Greenberg, David M. & Hamilton, Joseph G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimum Conditions for the "Hot Zone" Volatilization of TClâ‚„ (open access)

Optimum Conditions for the "Hot Zone" Volatilization of TClâ‚„

Abstract: "The data reported herein furnish a qualitative comparison of the rapidity of vaporization of TCl4 at various "hot zone" temperatures as well as a measure of the chlorine evolution attributed to its thermal decomposition. The presence of impurities in the TCl4 detracts from the significance of the reported chlorine evolution. The temperature recommended for rapid volatilization is 750 C at which TCl4 underwent thermal decomposition amounting to no more than 0.2% by weight."
Date: February 19, 1946
Creator: Crompton, C. E.; Calkins, V. P. & Larson, C. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U + 4 - U02 ++ Couple in H2SO , and the U + S - u + 4 Couple in HCl (open access)

The U + 4 - U02 ++ Couple in H2SO , and the U + S - u + 4 Couple in HCl

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.
Date: March 19, 1946
Creator: Cubicciotti, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining and Concentration of Missouri Valley Manganese at Chamberlain, South Dakota (open access)

Mining and Concentration of Missouri Valley Manganese at Chamberlain, South Dakota

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding the concentration of manganese ore along the Missouri River valley. The report contains maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: February 1946
Creator: Dupuy, Leon W.; Calhoun, W. A. & Rasmussen, R. T. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library