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Acting Divl ston activities and military liaison are 50 be ?n charge of la,lox James T. F!renfiw., who la to arrive 3n July 27, Group ?-1 ktas Seen reconstituted as the Radlologlc i n charge of the =search and development roetian and acthe
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24 June Patricia her l ck Property Clark u-Dir. Offlc. 7 July Louise Drordiak Techniclm 8 July Yegarat Hrpp Hod, 9 0 c o r b clerk Oceupatlaml 22 Juno 114 Qlorr Mod. Rooordr C l o ~ k Qoupat1on.l: Om or rl Romarkm I Tbm Group Le8dor, following sovmral confrlunedr with Labor a to qin Chicwo, Ill l no lr, ha8 ho13.d t o dovolop phnr for the stud7 of4possible treat sent of beryllium polroning. PrellrnlnarJ mfmal work 1s belnp; done a t thm Argonno Nrtimal be uufferlng fron thfr dlr ease, has been trurrfsrred to tho Billings Hospital in chic qo, where baric aetmbollc studlor aye
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have mads possible the coapletion o f the totmuo to~tofd..rdPlinl8Those medical of fia orr,er pool ill ~bootor Ball, ;. Tho Group Leader attendod tho American Modta.1
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d ) Urlnr spealmons collected for were mado for the purpore o f heconlnr, acqunlnted rFth processes m d tnr various naterlrls handled to locate pots nt irl health
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bogun last month. 18 nor bring usid. Thr first or theso w a ~a cofitlnuatlon of the study Doctor K. F. Yllllgm, of t h c , Orguric Chanlrtr.: Varlous aspects or tho ZIT in air tart rere studied in detail in the laboratory. was aade b y requeet following I1nrC eae rc ury spill -thore. hots tigatlonr made by requoat lnc ludsd the proposed control to anor soldor, and 8 dermatitis case In the D? LomdrT. were sover.1 inquiries hurdled reg6rdine toxic lt f of mntsrfal s In rddltlon-to the le bora to q rock on TNT, a mothod for tho detaminatlon o f barlm nitrate1s being drve:ovri near tho clora o f the month pormittin(l new types of air tsr tin q. tecnnlcinn, wne transferred frrja The S action Loader riado a trlp t o loston, L'ssr.,
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us0 of this metal io anticipated it. the near Gturo md'on tne trip v lr it r won made to seva ral ~ lscr swhere beryllium and lts nunorous persons hrvinff consideruble experlsnce In thl3lleld. A request !-.as been lr ii ret for mom: efffc ! ant Film badges w 1 : l be issued dally to ' the 7ayo chomistr, starting July 26, 1948, Ph Stic and brass rrlst badgrr are nor being
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c , Survey Xnstruientr Issued., ............... 40 d. Sxperirnental and de velo ~ a n frork: 1) Tvontg no'irs rir Zllrc:rcnlcr Soot ion. 2. Col. E, D. Susceral crans?cr.rsd t o Brooke Amy
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not above backgreund . deprrted the Jam dag b y per9onul aII*plane t c rrturn t & htr ?e
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the crater area and reruined for rp pra rl nut ol ~35 minutar. They made comprratlvo rtudirr of biological specimen@, including rreodr and grarror Lndl8enour t o the amel lnroats, m d bird. hloh *era e acr if iced with the ald of a shotgun. N O bt.ctab1.0 dlffrreacas wore noted in rpecirtene taken from withln m d ulthout A n a12 ghrs apparatus for the oJring o f 1-0 naphthalono cr7rfalr wu derignod m d put into operatl'on. Work in Proarars: was trained to car v on thr analyrris.
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f. hperlnentr are in progress for t h e growin8 of large cry it err of naphthalene. ' b e reaction wao carried out i n bhe apparrtur drroribed in a proviour peper(''* In an rtmaaphore a f purified luto ether was added during a period of 2 minuter t o 2.83 62 o f from butyl llthlrua (3.6 d]in ether, a t the 8-a th a km ping um r tir rod for 16 minutar. vow slowly, The nlxtura 1.1 then chi lb d to -eoo and Ue flask rraouatod t o 0.1 m. * Carbonrtion was robloved by rdrittbg 1 m# A greenish allo or oolor d a ~ o loped grn trap. The system uaa then swept out with pure qttrogen urd tho carbon dio xl do 1.8 absorbod In KOB for FCC OVO ~ . The reaction mixture after hydro ly air 1.8 mado strong17 tractor for5hous. The rater phase was freed or dtsaolred ether by 1 a m l n g gent17 then mado strong17 baric With 4 ml o f saturated aloohollc Km and refluxed ? i 8 0 r O U 8 l r for houri. Tho alkaline aolutlon ver then extracted contlnu
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for 3 houri. TnIr to ramova m y grease dl8solvod from tho - a8 rhom b7 the lack of Tluoreacence of t h e water phaae under ort ted *om tho extpact and the rerldue dried in I dorrlcrtor Over P20s, Tne y i e l d of crude product *as 52s. Purification ua8 crrrlod out bp sub li nation at 1000 ata prerruro of 0.1 mm. Sublimation 8.8 continuod until a drop of ether plaood on tho realdue no longer shorod fluorsocence under ultrarlolot llet. Tnr sublimate was dissolved Ln ether, tre rta d rith deoo~orlt1ng carbon, fil t wed, urd tho filtrate evaporated rlorly, yield acid (0.9999 6) aa obtrlnod In the synthesis dorcrlbod'in a prethlmyl chloride* for 45 mlnut?rs in a 60 m l round bottoroed flask equlppod with a calalum chloride guard tuba m d rturd8rd taper enclored Iron alug and a rotating na&?et. chloridr um rornoved a t room tenpsrrt'are urrder VIOUU.; yioldlng thur from llnreed oil, then fractionally dlstllled urd presrrvod
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crude product was 97.75, %e crude produet 8.8 dirrrpliod in 12 a3 hot toluano, dso ol orl sed rith orrbon urd cool6b.. ?ho to tha mido 81th apparent crub.yi old a of 114 to 1032 and
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the melting point. taggod n loot ln lc acid (0.41 d)comparable In qu all t ~t o that that the cmrde nicotinic acid could be eff lc is ' btly onployad Ln tho ry thor ir of the amide. h dio a tod that tho yield. would bo d imp point in @ y mall. w88 cmflrrpod by t h o results obtained by Me18 urd Bah~ar'~)who reportod yi old r of 3 5 - 4 d b~ this proeoduro. '&o methyl ertrr oould be convostod t o the mldo quantftrtlvely using r solution o f maonla ln mot!u!ol. art err using ordlnrrl, procedures Including cllrto-neUlurr war. 1. Work in Pronrers: a. Chro ~ r to gr r ~ h l cs tud ler of tho netaboll tes
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b. Work is being bogun on the 1,oXation of raid. Chromatographic rtudfes rlll also be carried out. C . A new experiment was started, using SO male rat#, t o dstrmino the effect8 of X-ray radiation on the d l r - tribution of phosphorus compounds in mimat tissues. Thera rata ware pro v lou sly ln jsc ted w l th carrier free radiorotire are being cornpletod on tha l u t exporimont. skalrtal muscle md .s;rlsan on the prrvlour sxperfrnmt hare boon of cl* Act l vlt y in Biological Pluida” has been au hit t * d to the &.Robert Xewoll o f tho Unlv or s it ~or CaliroFnfa
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2, York In rrogrosa bacruro of the scattering problem. - b. Mitosis paper has bean rrltten up and all !:'.a exper lnen t a l data ace tmu 1a:ed In mice m d rats is cont ln * ihg. ' d. A at at is t ical study of the stfects of chronlc
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A conreronco was held with NWA ProJmot rir it orr Purther information was obtained, through correspondanco with be Pail la, cancernine pPOpO3.d chm ~ e si n Health Uonitorfng Section in the present locrtlon o f tha Safot7 arid ratingr, and l n proofreading a report by b. Joropn G. Hoffbr on rrdirtfon accldontr. a. goutran Moni toring: Fission counts have beon obtained i n approxhato agroenent wltb due, the broksround In ordar to increase tha aacuraoj. Dr, Shlaer is testinq tho antbraceno scin - till ation nethod of counting f&mt noutrcmi, urd ha8 obtained s ff to ien cy data in rearanable r~recmsntwith UIo rorults o f
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rdsquato with regard t o neutron sans ~ tlvlt 7rill bo of rathor limited urotl ~ lner sfor health rnonltortne purposes on, kccount It appoarr that the trcMiqu0, dtbough pluurod to in v art lg8te various pos sib lo nethodr of dlfforontirtint! betreon thm rsrponre to there radirtlons. rolativo calibration o f 16 Landrverk 810. neutron ch'mborr, and found that tho7 do not dovirt. more thrnf 123 from the average reading. Sat. Matnor is construating a parrtfkr mochrrtor block Sgt8 u r i v o r fs nor riding in tho abroluta eallbration Of the nara been callbratab t o date. Accurate rlor neutron oxporums are bolng provided b. Film Badrto Monitorlna: f i l m urd pockot anunbor reaordr of aporurer of Bat0 chonlats 1s procooding s rt is fm tori ly. days) the film readlngs 5xcsod tho pock at chmbor readicgs, nCllc film VdU08 axcoed the pocket chaahsr val u or by about 40;; of the For rel at lv aly larga oxporure (shot
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