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Comparative Effectiveness and Additivity of Fission Neutrons Gamma Rays and Beta Rays of Drosphila Eggs

Description: From abstract: "Some investigations have been made to ascertain the similarity of the mechanism of action of radiation which are different in their specific ionization. A suggested approach was to determine if the energies absorbed from the different types of radiation are additive in their lethal effects on biological objects. In an attempt to determine the additivity of ionizing radiation various dose combinations of fast neutrons, gamma rays and beta rays were administered to Drosophila eggs… more
Date: February 1946
Creator: Stapleton, G. E. & Zirkle, Raymond E. (Raymond Elliot), 1902-1988
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The Quantitative Estimation of the Activity of Beta Particle Emitters

Description: From abstract: "In estimating the activities of β-emitting materials used in the Biology Section, most measurements were made with Geiger-Mueller counters, although Lauritsen electroscopes were used in early work. All samples were mounted on flat porcelain capsules."
Date: October 3, 1946
Creator: Zinn, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1906-2000; Broido, Abraham; Nordeen, Clifford & Himmelstein, Sheldon H.
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Methods of Analysis of Fission Products in the Experimental Biology Section

Description: From abstract: "This report describes methods used for radiochemical analysis of fission products most used in the Experimental Biology Section. The report includes methods of analysis of Sr89, Ba140-La140, Zr95-Cb95, Ce144-Pr144, and Y91 by standard chemical procedures. In addition, a method of analysis by use of an absorption curve is described in some detail for Zr95-Cb95 mixtures. The absorption curve method makes possible rapid determination of percentage composition of a mixture of isotop… more
Date: September 26, 1946
Creator: Tompkins, Paul C.; Broido, Abraham; Wish, Leon & Zinn, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1906-2000
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Sid Magnet Model Test Results

Description: From introduction: "These data were taken on a 1/16th scale model of the magnet shown on sketch no. FS-2. The object of these measurements was to get information that would determine the final design of the full scale magnet. The one main point to be settled was whether a tapered or a cylindrical pole piece would give the largest value of Hρ for a given power input into the magnet (the cylindrical pole piece is shown in dotted lines in sketch FS-2)."
Date: April 19, 1946
Creator: Sewell, Duane C., 1918-2008
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The Geochemistry of Columbium and Tantalum

Description: From abstract: "This is a review, with annotated bibliography, of the mode of occurrence of the elements columbium and tantalum. It is not a list of specific ore deposits, but a summary of the types of minerals and rocks in which these elements have been reported to occur. In addition, the unpublished spectrographic studies of the Geological Survey are summarized, best sources for columbium and tantalum are indicated, and suggestions are made for further investigation."
Date: June 1946
Creator: Fleischer, Michael, 1908-1998 & Harder, James O.
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Geochemistry of Germanium

Description: From abstract: "This is a review, with annotated bibliography, of the mode of occurrence of the element germanium. It is not a list of specific ore deposits, but a summary of the types of minerals and rocks in which germanium has been reported to occur. Best sources for germanium are indicated, based on the data in the literature and on the unpublished spectrographic studies of the Geological Survey on mill and smelter products. Suggestions are made for further investigations."
Date: 1946
Creator: Fleischer, Michael, 1908-1998 & Harder, James O.
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The Metabolism of Thorium, Protoactinium, and Neptunium in the Rat

Description: From abstract: "The distribution of carrier-free thorium, protoactinium and neptunium in the rat following intramuscular and oral administration has been studied. Oral adsorption for all three is negligible. Following parenteral administration, the skeleton is the organ showing the highest degree of prolonged and selective localization."
Date: August 23, 1946
Creator: Lans, H.; Scott, E. G.; Crowley, J. & Hamilton, J. G.
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Electrolytic Reduction of Uranyl Ion

Description: From introduction: "Due to the hydrogen overvoltage at the surface of a mercury cathode, uranium solutions is hydrochloric acid may be reduced not only to the tetravalent state, but until considerable trivalent uranium is formed. Other metallic ions act as oxidation-reduction catalysts as well as being reduced themselves. The following paper is a study of the various reactions taking place in solution and at the surface of the cathode."
Date: May 27, 1946
Creator: Nichols, Ambrose R., Jr.
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Infrared Spectrum of Benzene

Description: From abstract: "Benzene shows weak absorption bands in the 3 aliphatic C-Z region of the spectrum. The peaks of these bands are at 3.439, 3.459, 3.504, and 3.545."
Date: 1946
Creator: Flanagan, John; Gardner, R.; McKee, Frances & Schlegel, Richard, 1913-
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Metabolism and Distribution of Inhaled Plutonium in Rats

Description: From abstract: "Several different techniques were used to introduce tracer quantities of plutonium into the lungs of rats. When aerosols were produced by atomizing aqueous solutions of the nitrates it was found that approximately 20 per cent of the dose was absorbed and deposited in the skelton [sic] with tetra-, hexa-, and trivalent plutonium. Thus with these compounds, the lungs represent a more dangerous portal of entry than either oral (0.05 per cent) or intramuscular (13 per cent) administ… more
Date: October 29, 1946
Creator: Abrams, Richard; Siebert, H. C.; Potts, A. M.; Forker, L. L.; Greenberg, D.; Postel, A. et al.
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Argonne National Laboratory Biology Division Quarterly Report: August to October, 1946

Description: From introductory paragraph: "This is the first quarterly report of the Biology Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. During the three-month period covered by this report, a large share of the time of many investigators has been spent in collating work done under the Biology Section of the Metallurgical laboratory for publication in the Plutonium Project Record. The large amount of work done under wartime pressure has made this, as in other divisions and projects, an important part of th… more
Date: November 21, 1946
Creator: Bruss, Austin M.
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The Chemical Effects of Nuclear Transformations

Description: This technical report is divided into two sections addressing two different chemical effects of nuclear transformations. The first section discusses the beta decay of lanthanum to cerium. The second section discusses the beta decay of selenium to bromine.
Date: June 6, 1946
Creator: Coryell, Charles D. (Charles Du Bois), 1912-1971; Gest, H.; Edwards, R. R. & Davies, T. H.
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The Effects of Fast Neutrons on the Ability of Mice to Take Forced Exercise

Description: From abstract: "In an attempt to gain some insight into the physiological condition of mice surviving massive doses of radiation, a study of their vitality was undertaken. It was assured that the ability of these animals to do forced work would be a measure of their vitality, Stimulating exposed animals to run in exercise wheels to their fullest capacity, has resulted in a demonstration of a striking vitality less during a post-irradiative period, when no other effects are demonstrable by gross… more
Date: August 22, 1946
Creator: Stapleton, G. K. & Curtis, H. J.
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The Beta-Gamma Hand and Foot Counters

Description: Abstract: This is basically a counting rate meter, with an alarm circuit, operating from four GM tubes as the detecting elements. The Hand Counter comprises four logarithmic counting rate meters working from four GM tubes mounted individually, with associated electronic circuits, in suitable shields with a metal mesh type of window. Both sides of both hands are sampled simultaneously. In the Foot Counter, two GM tubes are separately and mounted in a suitable mesh window shielded with the el… more
Date: May 1946
Creator: Bradley, W. H.
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The Spatial Distribution of Neutrons Slowed Down by Elastic Collisions

Description: Technical report discussion of the complicated problem of the spatial distribution of slowed down neutrons. The introduction covers the current research on the topic. The following chapters cover the topics: (1) approximate treatment and its limitations, (2) age-velocity distribution, (3) general scheme of treatment based on transport equation, (4) Fermi's one-dimensional model, (5) moments, (6) remarks about the distribution function, and (7) point source.
Date: June 11, 1946
Creator: Placzek, G. (George), 1905-1955.
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Pile Kinetics

Description: From abstract: "A pile will run steadily at an arbitrary level if it is just critical. For a pile not at equilibrium, equations of motion can be set up that contain as variables the pile power, the number of delayed neutron emitters and, in case it is of importance, also the pile temperature. The coefficients will depend on the average lifetime of the neutrons in the pile, the fractions and periods of delayed neutrons, temperature coefficients of resistivity and similar quantities. For a defini… more
Date: June 14, 1946
Creator: Nordheim, L. W.
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Theory of Pile Control Rods

Description: From abstract: "A control rod absorbs neutrons and increases the leakage of neutrons from the pile through the depression of the neutron density in its vicinity. To determine the effect of controls on critical conditions for a pile the absorber may be considered, as in the electrical analogue, to produce a singularity in neutron density at its position. The strength of such a singularity is determined by the boundary conditions which must be satisfied at the surface of the black or non-black ab… more
Date: 1946
Creator: Scalettar, R. & Nordheim, L. W.
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A Mass Spectrograph for the Analysis of Fission Product Mixtures

Description: From introduction: "The analysis of mixtures of fission products with a mass spectrograph offers certain advantages. A chemical separation of the fission products found in the solution at Hanford is not necessary with the mass spectrograph technique. A sample of the mixtures can be placed on the sample holder and then the sample holder is mounted in the mass spectrograph. This reduces the amount of handling of the active solutions to one relatively simple and short operation. The health hazards… more
Date: June 12, 1946
Creator: Lewis, Lloyd G., 1917-
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Measurement of Weak Neutron Intensities by Szilard-Chalmers Reaction in Calcium Permanganate Solution

Description: From abstract: "A sensitive method for measuring the intensity of weak neutron sources by measuring induced Mn56 beta activity after concentration by a Szilard-Chalmers process has been developed. The practical detection efficiency for Ra-Be neutron is 7.8%; the procedure is capable of detecting a neutron intensity of about one neutron per second."
Date: September 26, 1946
Creator: Dodson, R. W.; Goldwell, Maxwell & Sullivan, John H.
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Inorganic Separations Using Ion Exchange

Description: From summary: "In previous project work, dilute mixtures of inorganic cations in aqueous solution have been concentrated by adsorption of the cations on a synthetic resin and they have been fractionated by selective desorption of the cations from the resin. In this report..the general procedure used in chemical separation, the equipment used, and the theory of the exchange equilibria and of the reaction rates are presented."
Date: August 29, 1946
Creator: Peterson, H. D.
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Contributions to the Radiochemistry of 104 day Y88.

Description: From introductory paragraph: "The study of the counting techniques of gamma-emitting radioisotopes is of a great deal of interest to workers in the field of radiochemistry. Of particular interest to the long-lived gamma emitting isotope of yttrium which is commonly prepared by a deuteron bombardment of strontium and is reported to decay by K-capture. This isotope, which is of interest in the fields of biochemistry and metallurgy was tentatively assigned to mass 86. Since a 2.0 hour activity was… more
Date: September 20, 1946
Creator: Overman, Ralph T.
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