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COVER One w a y of making sure your research dollars don't go down the drain is to make use of your engineering department. How does your company answer the question asked on the cover? AS WE GO TO PRESS
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FORECAST Soviets are expanding their plastics industry Is the rubber industry losing its identity?. . . .Acrylic plastics may get sales boost with help of nylon Greater use of radioisotopes certain to come Junior " b o a r d of directors" idea catching on Liquid oxygen may have to move over Big business in the making—chemicals for mining. . .
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l/EC REPORTS Magnetic video tape—Ampex tells how they make it Glycollate "home permanent" solution used to preserve the crease in trousers AEC is gearing for a boom in industrial use of radioisotopes Rice oil—for cooking and preventing corrosion Tung oil helps make a versatile varnish resin
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50th ANNIVERSARY FEATURE—Chemicals in Ore Processing—A FiftyYea r Review R. E. Byler, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Production of new wonder metals such as zirconium, niobium, and tantalum calls for new chemicals not previously used in treatment of minerals
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50th ANNIVERSARY FEATURE—Fifty Years of Rubber Progress A. E. Juve, B. F. Goodrich Co.
The story of rubber—from an art to an ordered science
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ENGINEERING ASSISTANCE TO RESEARCH A N D DEVELOPMENT An l/EC Special Feature W . S. Gilfoil and L. E. Rasmussen, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
Your engineering department may be a shortcut for you in turning research dollars into commercial products
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FEATUDFt WORKBOO EQUIPMENT A N D DESIGN—New Welding Techniques Ready Titanium for CPI A Staff Feature
Titanium is fusion welded in an inert gas atmosphere 4 A
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COSTS—Dynamic Cost Estimating William Copulsky and Rudolph Cziner, W . R. Grace & Co.
Long-range evaluations of chemical plant economics
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INSTRUMENTATION—Data Handling R. F. W a l l , Monsanto Chemical Co.
An effective method for monitoring process information free of human error
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CORROSION—Sulfuric Acid Corrosion of Stainless Steel W . L. Mathay, U. S. Steel Corp.
Proper design of stainless steels equipment can extend its range of usefulness
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SAFETY—Gadgets Can Spark Your Program S. M . MacCutcheon, Dow Chemical Co.
Let the tinkerers in your plant improve your safety record
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PROFESSIONAL SIDE—The Cost Engineer's Job James B. W e a v e r , Atlas Powder Co.
Cost engineers are often placed "on the spot," but it is a job in which you can get acquainted with the over-all operation of your company's business 103 A DEPARTMENTS Briefs
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Ideas Exchange Column
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New Books
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Readers' Information Service
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New Equipment and Materials
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Alphabetical List of Advertisers
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Hindsight and Foresight
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Editorial
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NEXT M O N T H l/EC Reports Latest and "unofficial" developments from the Chicago ACS National Meeting Equipment and Design Behavior of plastics at very high temperatures VOL. 50, NO. 9
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Editor Looks A t Instrumentation Columns
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Distillation
T . J . Williams Conversion Reactor
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Pilot Plant Fermentor w i t h Continuous Platinum Electrode Potential Measurement R. W . Squires and Peter Hosier
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Poly(vinyl M e t h y l Ether) Elastomers by Energy Radiation
Photochemical
R. F. Gaerfner and J. A. Kent
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G . D. Galletly and C. R. G a r b e t t
Dick Duffey
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Silver Peroxide-Zinc A l k a l i n e Cells. M e m b r a n e Separators
Pressure Vessels—Let the Tubes Support the Tube Sheet
High
Polymeric
H. H. Bieber, P. F. Bruins, and H. P. G r e g o r .
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1227 M i x i n g of Solids.
Large-Scale Separation of Boron Isotopes A. L. Conn and J. E. W o l f
Chi Square as a Criterion
J. B. G a y l e , O . L. Lacey, and J. H. G a r y .
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1231 Kinetics of Ethylene Glycol Nitration
Glycol Production—Hydration of Ethylene O x i d e D. F. Othmer and M . S. Thakar
Julius Roth, F. S. Stow, Jr., and D. L. K o u b a .
Carbon-Steam Reaction Kinetics f r o m Pilot Plant Data
Production of Aromatics by Hydrodealkylation
W . G . M a y , R. H. Mueller, and S. B. Sweetser S. R. Bethea, R. L. Heinrich, A. M . Souby, and L. T. Yule Ethylene Alcohols
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H. F. Drew and J. R. Schaeffer A n Isothermal Catalytic-Conversion Unit . . . . .
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Vapor-Liquid Equilibria. Microsampling Technique A p p l i e d to a N e w V a r i a b l e - V o l u m e Cell T. J. Rigas, D. F. Mason, and G e o r g e Thodos . .
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W . J. Cerveny and W . C. Pfefferle.
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Hyperconjugation. Correlation a n d Calculation of M o l a r Volumes of Alkenes C. W . Beck and L. Y. Beck
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1255 A Theory of Spray Combustion
Oxidation of ferf-Butylcyclohexane to Dibasic Acids w i t h O z o n e W . H. Clingman, Jr., and F. T. Wadsworth . . .
C. C. Miesse 1257
Karl Kammermeyer and D. D. Wyrick
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1259 Viscosity Behavior of Periodate- a n d chlorite-Oxidized Starches
A Practical Sys-
F. W . Denison, Jr., I. C. West, M . H. Peterson, and J. C. Sylvester
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Effect of Adsorption in Barrier Separation
Status of Continuous p H Measurement within Pharmaceutical Fermentation Processes
Large-Scale Fermentations. tem for pH Control
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D. A. Strang and C. J. Geankoplis
pH CONTROL I N FERMENTATION PROCESSES
T. J. Kehoe.
Longitudinal Diffusivity of Liquids in Beds
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