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Circular of the Bureau of Standards No. 562: Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds 1945 and 1952 NBS CIRCULAR 562 Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds 1945 to 1952 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS PERIODICALS OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS (Published monthly) The National Bureau of Standards is engaged in fundamental and applied research in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. Projects are conducted in fifteen fields: electricity and electronics, optics and metrology, heat and power, atomic and radiation physics, chemistry, mechanics, organic and fibrous materials, metallurgy, mineral products, building technology, applied mathematics, data process¬ ing systems, cryogenic engineering, radio propagation, and radio standards. The Bureau has custody of the national standards of measurement and conducts research leading to the improvement of scientific and engineering standards and of techniques and methods of measurement. Testing methods and in¬ struments are developed; physical constants and properties of materials are determined; and technical processes are investigated. Journal of Research The Journal presents research papers by authorities in the specialized fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering. Complete details of the work are presented, including laboratory data, experimental procedures, and theoretical and mathematical analyses. Annual subscription: domestic, $4.00; 25 cents additional for foreign mailing. Technical News Bulletin Summaries of current research at the National Bureau of Standards are published each month in the Technical News Bulletin. The articles are brief, with emphasis on the results of research, chosen on the basis of their scientific or technologic importance. Lists of all Bureau publications during the preceding month are given, including Research Papers, Handbooks, Applied Mathematics Series, Building Mate¬ rials and Structures Reports, Miscellaneous Publications, and Circulars. Each issue contains 12 or more two-column pages; illustrated. Annual subscription: domestic, $1.00; 35 cents additional for foreign mailing. Basic Radio Propagation Predictions The Predictions provide the information necessary for calculating the best frequencies for communication between any two points in the world at any time during the given month. The data are important to all users of long-range radio communications and navigation, including broadcasting, airline, steamship, and wireless services, as well as to investigators of radio propagation and ionosphere. Each issue, covering a period of one month, is released three months in advance and contains 16 large pages, including pertinent charts, drawings, and tables. Annual subscription: domestic, $1.00; $1.25 additional for foreign mailing. CATALOGS OF NBS PUBLICATIONS National Bureau of Standards Circular 460 and its Supplement lists all Bureau publications from 1901 through June 1952, including Applied Mathematics Series, Building Materials and Structures Reports, Circulars, Handbooks, Research Papers, and Miscellaneous Publications. Brief abstracts for the pub¬ lications issued after January 1, 1942, are also included. National Bureau of Standards Circular 460, 375 pages, $1.25. Supplement to Circular 460, 223 pages, 75 cents. (A free mimeographed list of publications issued since June 1952 is available on request to the National Bureau of Standards.) Order all publications from the Superintendent of Documents U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE • Sinclair Weeks, Secretary NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS . A. V. Astin, Director Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds 1945 to 1952 Lawrence M. Brown, Abraham S. Friedman and Charles W. Beckett National Bureau of Standards Circular 562 Issued January 27, 1956 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Price 50 cents Preface Late in 1951, the Thermodynamics Section of the National Bureau of Standards became actively engaged in an Isotope Exchange Data Program, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission Division of Research, which involved, in part, the preparation of bibliographies of research on the hydrogen isotopes for the years subsequent to 1945. As a result of this phase of the Program, annual bibliographies of deuterium and tritium research covering the years 1946 to 1952 and bibliographies of Government technical reports covering the period 1947 to November 1952 were prepared and distributed to chemists and physicists engaged in research on deuterium and tritium. The importance of the hydrogen isotopes as research tools and the utility of these bibliographies as an aid to scientific research relating to them has prompted the compilation of this Circular, which is a cumulative bibliography of published research on deuterium and tritium from about 1945 to 1952. A. V. Astin, Director. Contents Page- Preface_ ii 1. Introduction_ 1 2. Principal topics and subject code_ 2 3. Bibliography and author index_ 3 4. Subject index_ 72 5. Compound index_ 77 ii Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds Lawrence M. Brown, Abraham S. Friedman, and Charles M. Beckett A bibliography of 2,482 references to published research on the properties of deuterium and tritium compounds is given. The subject matter of each entry in the bibliography is indicated by letter codes related to a list of broad subject headings shown in the Introduc¬ tion. An index of deuterium and tritium compounds and a subject index are included. 1. Introduction The Circular is a bibliography of research on is followed by “-t”. No subscript has been deuterium and tritium compounds for the years appended to the “-t” to indicate the extent 1945 to 1952. It is divided into three sections: of tritium substitution. The chemical formula the first contains a bibliography and author index, for each compound containing deuterium or and the second and third contain the subject tritium is given. and compound indexes, respectively. No listing has been made in the compound The bibliography contains 2,482 references. index under Water or Water-t for exchange Approximately 95 percent of the references were reactions with water or for the use of water as a obtained from Chemical Abstracts for the years solvent. A lower case “s” has been used to in¬ 1946 to 1952, inclusive; the remaining 5 percent dicate other substances used as solvents (see, were found in British Abstracts and Physics for example, under Benzene). In addition, no Abstracts (Science Abstracts, Section A) for the listing has been made under Hydrogen, Tritium, same years. Water, or Water-t where the subjects involved are: The references in the bibliography are arranged Analytical Methods, General and Review, Nuclear alphabetically according to the last name of the Properties, Separation, and Atomic Spectra. Ref¬ leading author. The names of coauthors are erences to such research may be found under also included and are cross-referenced. these headings in the subject index. Each entry in the bibliography is numbered The arrangement and the methods of coding and by a letter-number symbol that corresponds to indexing used in the Bibliography of Research on the first letter of the leading author’s last name Heavy Hydrogen Compounds by Kimball, Urey, and and the numerical listing of the reference under Kirshenbaum have been followed in the prepara¬ that letter. This numbering system is used in tion of this Circular. the indexing of the entries in the bibliography. For convenience, the colloquial abbreviation The subject matter of the references is indicated C.A. for Chemical Abstracts has been used at the end of each entry by means of one or more throughout the bibliography. of the letter codes related to the subject categories shown in the list of Principal Topics. The main headings are designated by two letters of the heading title, and the subheadings are represented by these two letters and one or two additional, appropriate letters. For example, the code sym¬ This Circular was prepared as part of a broad bol for Chemical Kinetics is Ki and that for the Isotope Exchange Program sponsored by the kinetics of photochemical reactions is KiP. The Atomic Energy Commission Division of Research. subject content was determined generally from The help and interest of a large number of sci¬ the abstracts of the references; the original entists in carrying out this program is gratefully articles were consulted when the abstracts were acknowledged, in particular: Doctors F. G. Brick- not sufficiently informative. Review articles and wedde (National Bureau of Standards), H. C. abstracts are so described. Urey (University of Chicago), J. Bigeleisen In preparing the compound index the nomen¬ (Brookhaven National Laboratory), R. E. Connick clature used in Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry (University of California), and G. Kavanagh has been followed. Common synonyms of many (Atomic Energy Commission Division of Re¬ of the compounds have been entered and cross- search). Messrs. J. Hilsenrath, J. Park, J. indexed to the compound name used by Lange. Goldstein, Iv. Nelson, and S. Prusch, and the Compounds containing tritium have been named staffs of the Thermodynamics Section and the in accordance with the modified Boughton sys¬ Applied Mathematics Division of the National tem,1 in which the name of the hydrogen compound Bureau of Standards have been very helpful in 1 Crane, Ind. Eng. Chcm. News Ed. 13, 200-01 0935). the preparation of this Circular. 1 2. Principal Topics and Subject Code
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