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Polymerization in Solid Solutions of Acrylamide in Propionamide

Description: It has previously been shown that the polymer formed in solid state polymerization of acrylamide is amorphous in spite of the fact that the reaction takes place within a crystalline solid. The stage at which it becomes amorphous is not known at present. Work with dilute solid solutions of acrylamide in propionamide suggests that this occurs after the addition of, at most, a very few monomer units.
Date: March 26, 1963
Creator: Adler, G. & Reams, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Numerical Solutions for Diffusion in a Sphere, Cylinder, and Plate

Description: In calculating diffusion coefficients for gases diffusing from solids, the numerical solutions tabulated by Darken and Gurry, were found to lack the required precision, and the intervals between the arguments were too great to permit precise interpolations. Consequently the diffusion equation solutions of interest (diffusion from a sphere, cylinder, and plate, for the condition that the concentration of the diffusing species initially uniform) were re-evaluated. Computer programs for the three … more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Auskern, Allan
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A Versatile Bubble-Chamber Track Measuring Stage

Description: Technical report describing a bubble chamber film track measuring stage designed for maximum versatility that was build at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The report includes photographs and diagrams of the device.
Date: March 1962
Creator: Ayer, Frederick, II & Bolze, Ernest M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternating Gradient Magnets

Description: The angle by which a magnet deflects the trajectory of a particle in the x-z plane is proportional to the integral [integral not transcribed] taken over the trajectory wherever B≠0. Alternating gradient focusing is achieved by designing magnets so that I=I(x) varies linearly with x over a suitable x interval. Usually this is done by shaping the poles to give a linear variation of By with x while keeping the length of the magnet constant for different x. Certain advantaged may be gained by varyi… more
Date: March 3, 1963
Creator: Beth, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long Coil Measurements Satisfy Two-Dimensional Field Equations

Description: The amount by which the field of a magnet bends the path of a charged particle is proportional to the integral of Btds along the trajectory. Instead of making tedious point by point measurements of B in magnets and performing the integrations numerically, it has been found useful to measure directly, by using a search coil whose winding consists of long and narrow turns extending through the magnet gap from z1 and z2 in the direction of the trajectory. It should be noted that the integral Iy is… more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Beth, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiation - Induced Mammary Gland Neoplasia in the Rat

Description: In discussing this subject, data on radiation induced mammary gland neoplasia in the rat indicating that direct interaction between the radiation and target tissue is necessary for maximum neoplasia induction will be presented mainly. Other types of radiation induced neoplasia, in which little or no information on the mechanisms involved is available, will be discussed briefly. In particular, investigations on radiation induced mouse lymphoma will be reviewed, in which neoplasia appears to be a… more
Date: March 6, 1963
Creator: Bond, V. P.; Cronkite, E. P.; Shellabarger, C. A. & Aponte, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of Low Frequency Molecular Motions in HF, KHF2, KH2F3 and NaH2F3

Description: The spectra of KHF2, KH2F3, NaH2F3, liquid and solid HF were measured between 1200 and 30 cm-1 by the inelastic scattering of "cold neutrons" (0.005e.v.). The spectrum of KHF2 is in agreement with previous infrared measurements and shows a peak at 147 mV corresponding to a deformation frequency v2 of the F-H-F group and a broad peak at 13 mV due to a libration of this group. The observed spectra for KH2F3, NaH2F3 solid and liquid HF were compared with that for KHF2 considering the known results… more
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: Boutin, Henri & Safford, G. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Four Short Articles on Genetics of Maize

Description: Studies carried on since 1956 indicate that the prosaic breeding procedure of sibbing among the most perennial segregates in the hybrid of 4n maize x 4n perennial teosinte quickly restores perennialism to 50% maize tetraploids through increasing the expression of the rhizomatous habit under selection pressure. Similarly, only two generations of selection at the 75% maize level have resulted in a progressive recovery of the perennial expressive. A high degree of maize-likeness therefore appears … more
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Personnel Dosimetry of Very High Energy Radiation

Description: Before discussing personnel monitoring of high energy radiations, it is appropriate to comment briefly on two basic methods of dosimetry applicable to such situations. In the first of these methods, one measures the rad dose in air with a tissue-equivalent ionization chamber that is operated with enough voltage on the collecting electrode to insure saturation even when the radiation is concentrated in short pulses, as is frequently the case. The linear energy transfer (LET) spectrum of the radi… more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Cowan, Fredrick P.
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On the Structure of Sperm Whale Myoglobin. [Part] 1, The Amino Acid Composition and Terminal Groups of the Chromatographically Purified Protein

Description: The report objective is to establish the amino acid composition of sperm whale myoglobin. From Summary: "The homoprotein that comprises 96% by weight of the protein present in crystalline sperm whale myoglobin may be received into at least five components by chromatography on the carboxylic resin IRC-50."
Date: March 26, 1962
Creator: Edmundson, A. B. & Hirs, C. H. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neutron Sources - Cross Sections and Angular Distributions

Description: It is appropriate that a conference devoted to the interactions of fast neutrons with nuclei begin with a survey of the available sources of such neutrons. Since its discovery in 1932, the neutron has provided a highly useful tool in attempts to understand the nucleus, and the types of nuclear phenomenon which could be studied and the nature of the results obtained are very dependent on the sources available.
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Goldberg, Murrey D.
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Fundamentals of Vacuum Technology

Description: Vacuum technology is germaine to and is utilized in an extroardinarily widespread scope of the scientific disciplines. From the medical technician freeze drying hog cholera vaccine to the solid state physicist studying thin film phenomena, vacuum technology is an important auxiliary. When one visits the NASA center at Langley and sees the clustered space environmental chambers, looking like a field of grotesque mushrooms, one realizes that vacuum technology is a vital adjunct in this most recen… more
Date: March 26, 1963
Creator: Gould, C. L.
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Secondary Tetanus Antitoxin Responses in Mice Elicited Prior to Irradiation

Description: The pioneer study by Benjamin and Sluka in 1908 on inhibition of antibody formation by X-rays revealed the importance of the temporal relationship between exposure to radiation and injection of antigen. X-radiation delivered three days before injection of beef serum inhibited precipitin formation in rabbits. A similar exposure to X-rays delivered three days after injection of the antigen failed to repress production of specific antibody. These observations were partially confirmed in 1915 when … more
Date: March 6, 1963
Creator: Hale, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Structure of HCrO2 and DCrO2

Description: A neutron diffraction study of polycrystalline HCrO2 and DCrO2 (chromous acid) is described. Intensity data from the two substances were refined together by the least-squares method, with the constraint that the Cr-O distance be the same in the two substances. Estimates of individual contributions to multiple peaks were included in the least-squares refinement through the use of a non-diagonal weight matrix. The O-D-O bond is found to be asymmetric, O-D = 0.96 ± 0.04 A, O...O - 2.55 ± 0.02 A. T… more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Hamilton, Walter C. & Ibers, James A.
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Hot-Atom Chemistry of the Solid StateL its History, Current Status and Future Prospects viewed in Relation to the Planning of Chemical Research Programs for New Scientific Establishments Centered about a Research Reactor

Description: The History, Current Significance and Status of the Field Hot atom chemistry, like many other fields of scientific research, can trace its origin to a single experiment, that of Szilard and Chalmers, performed in 1934. This is true even though recoil effects had been known and used for a long time. Almost immediately Szilard and Chalmers put their discovery to practical use: they employed the recoil effect in ethyl iodide as a neutron detector and observed the γ,n reaction in beryllium. The ing… more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Harbottle, Garman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mathematics of Intermittent Irradiation

Description: Initiation of reactions by intermittent irradiation is frequently encountered in physical, chemical, and biological systems. Mathematical expressions for transient and steady state concentrations of reactive species in these systems are useful for predicting performance and for research purposes. A general method of formulation of the intermittent irradiation problem is presented herein, and illustrative solutions are obtained for radioactive decay chains and for the rotating sector method.
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: Hill, F. B.
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Human Radiation Injury - a Correlation of Leukocyte Depression with Mortality in the Japanese Exposed to the Atomic Bombs

Description: The method of collection and the subsequent analysis of the hematological data accumulated by the Joint Commission of the Investigation of the Early Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, have been described. In the present investigations, an additional analysis of the hematological data was made to investigate a possible relationship between leukopenia and the mortality rate within the first nine weeks following the bombings. It has been frequently observed in laboratory animals exposed to ioniz… more
Date: March 8, 1963
Creator: Jacobs, George J.; Lynch, Francis X.; Cronkite, Eugene P. & Bond, Victor P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Parameters of the 132 eV Neutron Resonance in Co 59

Description: An accurate determination of the parameters of the resonance excited by the interaction of the 132 eV neutrons with the Co 59 target nucleus has been made, using the fast choppers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and Chalk River Laboratory in Canada. Neutron transmission through thick and thin samples resulted in the following parameters: [parameters not transcribed]. In addition, measurements of the resonance capture γ-ray intensity gave the value for the radiation width … more
Date: March 25, 1963
Creator: Jain, A. P.; Chrien, R. E.; Moore, J. A. & Palevsky, H.
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Ytterbium and Terbium Dodecaborides

Description: The synthesis of several rare earth dodecaborides, isomorphous with UB12 and ZrB12, and crystallographic data for these phases were reported recently. The unit cells are face centered cubic with four formula weights of MeB12 per unit cell; the structures may be visualized in terms of boron atoms linked in a rigid three-dimensional network, with the metal atoms in large cubo-octahedral holes.
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: La Placa, Sam & Noonan, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adaptation of a Commercial Counter X-Ray Diffractometer for Investigations to 3000°C

Description: The rapid advances in many technologically important areas have not only served to accentuate the increased demands for high temperature metals and ceramics but have necessitated a more through knowledge of their physical properties when exposed to high temperature service. Toward this latter end, the use of X-ray diffraction has proved an invaluable tool in providing data of regions of thermal stability, expansion coefficients, solid solubility limits, and phase transformations by direct exami… more
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: LaPalca, Samuel; Farber, Gerald & Adler, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cell Population Kinetics of an Osteogenetic Tissue, I

Description: Cell proliferation on the actively growing periosteal surface of the femur of rabbits aged two weeks, has been investigated using autoradiographic techniques. Injections of tritiated glycine and tritiated thymidine were given simultaneously and the animals sacrificed at intervals from one hour to 5 days after injection. The glycine labelled the position of the bone surface at the time of injection and the thymidine labelled the cells which were synthesizing DNA . The rate of increase in the cel… more
Date: March 12, 1963
Creator: Maureen, Owen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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