NEWS
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EDITION
Vol. 18, No. 23
Local Sections DEC.
SECTION AND PLACE
American Chemical Society1 101ST MEETING.
St. Louis, Mo., April 7
to 11, 1941. 102ND MEETING.
Atlantic City, N. J..
SPEAKER
SUBJECT
Organic A b s o r p t i o n Spectra Solar Radiation
Cleveland, Hotel Cleveland
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W. H. Rodebush
Philadelphia, Franklin Institute Rochester, Little Theater, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester South Jersey, Country Club, Penns Grove Southeast Tennessee, University of Chat* inooga Virginia Blue Ridge, Lee Chapel, Ivexington Western Connecticut, Hubbard Heights Golf Club, Stamford Western Maryland, Cumber land
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C. G. Abbot
16
R. M. Fuoss
Electrical Properties of Polar Polymers
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Hugh S. Taylor
17
Murray Raney
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Theodore M. Switz
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H. Mark
Hydrocarbons Petroleum Preparation and Catalysts The Other Half World Mechanism of merisation
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Whitney Weinrich
from Use of of the Poly-
Chemicals from Petroleum
September 8 to 12, 1941. 103RD MEETING. Memphis, Tcnn., spring
New Rotameter Float Reported
of 1942. SYMPOSIUM ON DIFFUSION AS THE BASIS OF UNIT OPERATIONS, Division of In-
dustrial and Engineering Chemistry. Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.. December 27 and 28, 1940. SYMPOSIUM ON STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES AND AGGREGATES OF MOLECULES, Divi-
sion of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. Columbia University, New York, N. Y., December 30, 1940, to January 1, 1941.
Other Scientific Societies AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY. Ix>rd Balti-
more Hotel, Baltimore, Md., March 30 to April 5, 1941. 43rd annual meeting. AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY.
Philadel-
phia, Penna., December 26 to 28. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING M A -
A NEW rotameter float, designed to minimize viscosity changes, was described by Kermit Fischer, Seymour Week man, and Eugene Lipstein of the Fischer and Porter Co., Philadelphia, at the New Orleans meeting of the American Institute* of Chemical Engineers, December 2 to 4. The new float, trade-named "StablVis", was developed during research work on the effect of flow and viscous drag on immersed bodies. It was noticed that the drag coefficients for disks were fairly constant, even though the Reynolds number of the liquids varied considerably. Consequently, a float in the shape of a disk was devised and this was developed to the present-day commercial Stabl-Vis. The float head, which floats in the rotameter
tube, is a flat disk connected by means of a small tube to the body of the float which is in a small chamber in the top of the instrument and is completely removed from the flow stream of the fluid. The body (which is heavy to give the necessary weight), connecting tube, and float are stabilized with a guide wire which passes through them. While viscosity changes are not entirely eliminated with the new float, for practical purposes its effects are not significant. Rotameter users, it is said, may switch individual rotameters from one service to another. Liquids, such as sulfuric acid, which vary sharply in viscosity ononaccountof changes in temperature or concentration may be accurately measured by the new float with little danger of incorrect readings caused by the physical variation.
TERIALS. Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C , March 3 to 7, 1941. ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY. Hotel Cleve-
land, Cleveland, Ohio, April 16 to 19, 1941. SOCIETY
SOCIETY AFFAIRS
OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich., Januarv 6 to 10,1941. Annual meeting 1 The list of the SOCIETY'S National Officers and Directors, Editors, Members of Council, Divisional and Local Section Officers. Committees, and Chapters of Student Affiliate*
Members Elected November 1 to December 1
appears in the NEWS EDITION three times a
year—usually February 10, May 10, and October 10. The latest list will be found on page 856 of the October 10 issue.
Exhibit of Organic Finishes AN EXHIBIT of products finished with newest organic finishes by latest processes will be held at the offices of the Maas & Waldstein Co., 438 Riverside Ave., Newark, N. J., January 5 to 30, 1941. Types of finishes to be exhibited include clear lacquers, lacquer-enamels, air-drying and baking synthetics, and wrinkle enamels. Quick-drying and baking finishes of great durability and protective quality will be featufed, as well as types of finishes that can be effectively baked by the infrared radiant process.
Total Membership November 59—25,414 COLUMBUS SECTION. leeK
Kenneth W. Green-
DETROIT SECTION. Melville J. Baisaire1, Richard N. Cogger, Bonheur M. Weston. MINNESOTA SECTION.
Herbert F. Scobie.
N E W YORK SECTION. Emil D'Aleasandro». William Anthony 8uruda. NORTH JERSEY SECTION. NORTHEASTERN 8ECTION. weU. Terrell L. Hill. PHILADELPHIA
Charles Urbach.
SECTION.
Wm. J. Schepp.
PITTSBURGH SECTION. PRINCETON SECTION.
Russell L. Gass 1 . Paul T. Condit 1 .
UNIVERSITY OP MICHIGAN SECTION. Heyn 1 . WASHINGTON Miller.
SECTION.
Chariot*
WESTERN N E W YORE SECTION. H. Elliott, Jr. 1
Ernest M. CroN o SECTION. A.
Cantor,
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Henry A. Parkin.
Junior member.
Arno
H.
William
