Installation of a Chemical Research Laboratory (open access)

Installation of a Chemical Research Laboratory

Installation of a chemical research laboratory.
Date: January 27, 1948
Creator: Sheinberg, H. & Thomas, R. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mathematical Development of the End-Point Method (open access)

The Mathematical Development of the End-Point Method

Detailed study of the mathematically developed end-point method and its application to the Milne kernel.
Date: June 17, 1948
Creator: Frankel, S. & Goldberg, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Mechanism for Automatic and Manual Control of the Air Velocity at the Window Opening of Fume Hoods (open access)

A Mechanism for Automatic and Manual Control of the Air Velocity at the Window Opening of Fume Hoods

An effort to develop a control on the air velocity at the door opening of a fume hood.
Date: November 15, 1948
Creator: Weber, John, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator (open access)

Berkeley Proton Linear Accelerator

Construction of a linear accelerator which increases the energy of protons from a 4 Mev Van de Graaff injector to a final energy of 31.5 Mev.
Date: November 30, 1948
Creator: Alvarez, Luis W.; Bradner, Hugh; Gordon, Hayden; Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H.; Richman, Chaim & Woodyard, John R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Radioactivity of Potassium 40: A Survey of Investigations (open access)

The Radioactivity of Potassium 40: A Survey of Investigations

From note: "Report discussing the history of the research of potassium 40 and its radioactivity, as well as the author's own investigations into the isotope."
Date: November 29, 1948
Creator: Weaver, B. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Several Related Mathematical Problems in Bombardment Chemistry and in Other Fields (open access)

Several Related Mathematical Problems in Bombardment Chemistry and in Other Fields

Report of example scenarios and useful equations for determining the production of radioactive isotopes by pile or other radiations.
Date: February 18, 1948
Creator: Simpson, O. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Construction Drawings Using Copper, Brass, and Steel]

Three charts of copper, brass, and steel construction for use in nuclear reactors.
Date: 1948
Creator: Jorgensen
Object Type: Technical Drawing
System: The UNT Digital Library

SegrĆØ Chart [Isotope Chart]

Chart showing type of radiation and isotope classification for each element, in a periodic table layout.
Date: 1948
Creator: SegrĆØ, Emilio
Object Type: Technical Drawing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on Hack's Canyon Uranium Mine, Mohave County, Arizona (open access)

Report on Hack's Canyon Uranium Mine, Mohave County, Arizona

This is a geological report on the uranium mine in Hack's Canyon, Mohave County, Arizona.
Date: September 1, 1948
Creator: Dunning, Charles H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tabulation or Ore Reserves and Past Production for the Uranium-Vanadium Region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona (open access)

Tabulation or Ore Reserves and Past Production for the Uranium-Vanadium Region of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona

The tabulations on these pages include all of the known areas in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona having economically important uranium-vanadium deposits of the type which are generally referred to by the terms roscoe-lite and/or carnotite. Though similar deposits are known to exist in other areas they are to be viewed as being little more than mineralogical curiosities.
Date: February 16, 1948
Creator: Fetzer, Wallace G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Isolation and Properties of Curium (open access)

The Isolation and Properties of Curium

From introduction: "The discovery of element number 96, curium, was realized by the preparation and identification of the isotope Cm-242 by G. T. Seaborg, R. A. James and A. Ghiorso by cyclotron bombardment of Pu-239 with helium ions."
Date: July 28, 1948
Creator: Werner, Louis Bernard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physico-Chemical Studies of U Compounds in Solution : Report of Progress for December, 1944 (open access)

Physico-Chemical Studies of U Compounds in Solution : Report of Progress for December, 1944

This report discusses studies of oxidation-reduction, including polarography, and the U complex of U anions and U cations during the period of December, 1944.
Date: 1948
Creator: Tishkoff, G. H.; Dounce, Alexander Latham & Fanta, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physico-chemical Studies of U-Compounds in Solution : Progress Report, February 1945 (open access)

Physico-chemical Studies of U-Compounds in Solution : Progress Report, February 1945

This progress report discusses progress on oxidation-reduction studies, including polarography, as well as the Uranium-complex formation including electrical transport and spectro-photometric work. This report covers the work done in the period of February of 1945.
Date: May 26, 1948
Creator: Tishkoff, G. H. & Fanta, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Acute Radiotoxicity of Injected NaĀ²ā“ for Mice and Rats (open access)

The Acute Radiotoxicity of Injected NaĀ²ā“ for Mice and Rats

The following report describes the results from studies based on the toxicity and metabolism of radioactive substances derived from uranium fission. Rats and mice were administered radioactive sodium and reactions and changes were studied.
Date: April 15, 1948
Creator: Finkle, R. D.; Snyder, R. H.; Kisieleski, Walter E.; Teresi, J.; Broido, A. & Tompkins, P. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Hydrolytic Behavior of Cerium (IV) (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Hydrolytic Behavior of Cerium (IV)

The following report analyzes the hydrolytic behavior of cerium and compares them with the actinides of uranium and plutonium.
Date: May 25, 1948
Creator: Kraus, K. A.; Holmberg, R. W. & Nelson, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Leukopenia by Chronic Irradiation of the Abdominal Viscera of the Cat (open access)

The Production of Leukopenia by Chronic Irradiation of the Abdominal Viscera of the Cat

This report describes an experiment that produced leukopenia in cats through irradiation. It elaborates that irradiated cats had significant decreases in levels of leukocytes, polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and lymphocytes. The methods and specific results of the experiment are also given and discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Adams, William S. & Lawrence, John S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters (open access)

Apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters

Report detailing the development of an apparatus for injection of animals with dangerous amounts of hard beta and gamma emitters. The development of this apparatus was necessitated by the extended period of time that experimenter's had to hold syringes containing radioactive material.
Date: 1948
Creator: Anthony, Davis S. & Norris, William P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies of the metabolism and toxic action of injected radium (open access)

Studies of the metabolism and toxic action of injected radium

Report discussing various studies on the effect of radium injections in rats, mice, and rabbits. Specifically, the effects on weight, lethal action, excretion and retention are discussed.
Date: 1948
Creator: Norris, William P. & Evans, H. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual Efficiency of a Phosphor Bombarded by Plutonium Alpha Particles (open access)

Visual Efficiency of a Phosphor Bombarded by Plutonium Alpha Particles

This report follows and experiment that was performed to determine the visual efficiency of a phosphor when bombarded by alpha particles.
Date: November 15, 1948
Creator: Wakefield, Ernest
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revised draft of glossary in terms of reactor theory (open access)

Revised draft of glossary in terms of reactor theory

Report describing multiple terms that are relevant to reactor theory. The terms are broken up into seven categories that are listed on the second page of the report.
Date: 1948
Creator: Smith, Nicholas M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine in East Area Carbon Anode Cells (M.W.38.0) (open access)

Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine in East Area Carbon Anode Cells (M.W.38.0)

Historical: This process is based on experimental work done in Jackson Laboratory, Send Works, Blue Products, and East Area. It supersedes the Tentative Chambers Works Process for the Manufacture of Fluorine Using Carbon Anode Units, dated December 2, 1943.
Date: January 18, 1948
Creator: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Second-Year Inhalation Toxicity Study of Animals Employing Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate at 4 mg/m3 (open access)

A Second-Year Inhalation Toxicity Study of Animals Employing Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate at 4 mg/m3

Report discussing a study on chronic toxicity of uranyl nitrate hexahydrate in both dogs and rats. A detailed explanation of the experiment is given, including procedures and experimental results.
Date: 1948
Creator: Sprague, G. F., Jr.; Pettengill, A.; Brown, B. & Stokinger, H. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observation of Mesons Produced by the 184-inch Cyclotron (open access)

Observation of Mesons Produced by the 184-inch Cyclotron

The following report presents the study of meson tracks produced by a cyclotron of 184-inches, and prompting the question of whether the light mesons all come from decays of heavy mesons, or whether they are produced in a primary process at the target.
Date: 1948
Creator: Lattes, CeĢsar H. G. & Gardner, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Crystal Structure of Trichlorides, Tribromides and Trihydroxides of Uranium and of Rare Earth Elements (open access)

The Crystal Structure of Trichlorides, Tribromides and Trihydroxides of Uranium and of Rare Earth Elements

Abstract: "The compounds UCl3, UBr3, IaCl3, LaBr3, La(OH)3, CeCl3, CeBr3, PrCl3, PrDr3, Pr(OH)3, HdCl3, and Hd(OH)3 are shown to be isomorphous. They have hexagonal structures with two molecules per unit cell. The complete structures are determined and described."
Date: 1948
Creator: Zachariasen, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library