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BAUSCH & LOMB ; Ρ Ί«Ε?0 COLORIMETER This low-cost "production tool" makes it easier than ever to get quick, dependable photometric readings. In many industrial labo- ratories it is the basic equipment for quality control testing, inspec- tion . . . even research! In others it handles all routine work, taking the load off expensive, special-pur- pose equipment. • DEPENDABLE ACCURACY! N a r r o w band pass (only 20 m/i! ) assures highest spectral purity. • EASIEST TO USE! Dial inscantly sets Certiiied-Precision diffraction grating to desired wavelength; no color filters to fuss with. • FASTEST READINGS! Instant-acting meter gives exact percent transmission, or optical density. • LOW PRICE, DOUBLE VALUE! Colori- meter plus spectrophotometer 365m/i- 950m/t range in one long-life, trouble- free instrument. (Extended range, 340m/£-950m/i at slight extra cost.) WRITE FOR IMPORTANT DATA · For your free copy of informative Cata- log D-266, write Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 74805 St. Paul St., Rochester 2, Ν. Υ. ( Obligation-free demonstration on request. ) Used in these and many other industries to maintain quality and boost output: METALS • •» RUBBER PETROLEUM FOODS .:..-• PLASTICS PAINTS ·.:' x PLATING PA>PER LEATHER - BEVERAGES DYES TEXTILES PHARMACEUTICALS: SYNTHETIC FIBERS^. PUBLIC. UTILITIES Elemental Nuclear chemists working on spent fuel element processing (page 2690) have come up with what they call a new synthetic "element." Because it is not always advantageous to try pyr©metal- lurgical processes on real reactor fuel elements, researchers resort to com- pounding their own synthetic mixtures by tossing in bits of uranium, pluto- nium, barium, cesiu ., strontium, and any other "rums" that may be needed. To the initiate, this synthetic mixture is known, appropriately enough, as "fissium/' Invention's Rewards After publishing a picture of the Quickfit & Quartz "vest pocket" chem- ical lab (C&EN, March 19, page 1362), we learn from Jobn T. Stock of the University of Connecticut that this ap- paratus was developed from a design he and M. A. Fill worked out while Stock taught at Norwood Technical College in London. Vest pocket prototype "Messrs. Quickfit ^ Quartz saw our prototype at the L^52 International Congress on Analytical Chemistry," Stock adds, "and asked our help in pro- ducing a commercial model. With their technical department, we spent several hundred houars in drafting, test- ing, and rebuilding: until a suitable production form wast evolved. "Since we had mo direct financial arrangement with thte company, when they wished to reirrahurse us w e sug- gested they endow I^orwood's student fund so that our stucdents could benefit from our work. The firm readily agreed to this. The perpetual endow- ment provides an arward for the best chemistry student of the year/' One of the units now is on permanent exhibition in the crjLemistry section of the London Science Museixm, Stock in- forms us, and the equipment has been used, also, in a film made by BBC for television showing. Two other British firms also are marketing microchemical apparatus developed by Stock and his colleagues. Challenge for Plastics - New York's Boarcd 'of Education has been looking for a new type of window for its schools, at ILeast for the lower floors where panes are frequently broken by students who take a rather dim view of edhication. Various plastic windows have been tried. But though they won't shatter, all used so far have shown a tendency to cloud or scratch easily. However, the board has hopes that a monscratching, non- clouding pane will f>e developed, sooner or later. C O M I N G N E X T WEEK BAUSCH & TJOMB Natural Gas as a Chemical Ra^w Material Will petroleum supplant natural gas as source of most petrochemicals? C&EN surveys the field Literature Searching Shifts to High Gear Opler and Norton tell how they search for chemical structures with high speed computers 2728 C&EN MAY 2 8. 1956 Makes industrial tè$ting easy as tuning your radio ! * 0 7^&<6tS^~JS&*>££>£s
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BAUSCH & LOMB
; Ρ Ί«Ε?0 COLORIMETER
This low-cost "production tool" makes it easier than ever to get quick, dependab le pho tomet r i c readings. In many industrial laboratories it is the basic equipment for quality control testing, inspection . . . even research! In others it handles all routine work, taking the load off expensive, special-purpose equipment. • DEPENDABLE ACCURACY! Narrow band
pass (only 20 m/i! ) assures highest spectral purity.
• EASIEST TO USE! Dial inscantly sets Certiiied-Precision diffraction grating to desired wavelength; no color filters to fuss with.
• FASTEST READINGS! Instant-acting meter gives exact percent transmission, or optical density.
• LOW PRICE, DOUBLE VALUE! Colorimeter plus spectrophotometer 365m/i-950m/t range in one long-life, trouble-free instrument. (Extended range, 340m/£-950m/i at slight extra cost.)
WRITE FOR IMPORTANT DATA · For your free copy of informative Catalog D-266, write Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 74805 St. Paul St., Rochester 2, Ν. Υ. ( Obligation-free demonstration on request. )
Used in these and many other industries to maintain quality and boost output: METALS • •» RUBBER PETROLEUM F O O D S .:..-• PLASTICS PAINTS ·.:'
x P L A T I N G PA>PER LEATHER - BEVERAGES DYES TEXTILES PHARMACEUTICALS: SYNTHETIC F I B E R S ^ . PUBLIC. U T I L I T I E S
Elemental Nuclear chemists working on spent
fuel element processing (page 2690) have come up with wha t they call a new synthetic "element." Because it is not always advantageous to try pyr©metallurgical processes on real reactor fuel elements, researchers resort to compounding their own synthetic mixtures b y tossing in bits of uranium, plutonium, barium, cesiu ., strontium, and any other "rums" tha t may be needed. T o the initiate, this synthetic mixture is known, appropriately enough, as "fissium/'
Invention's Rewards After publishing a picture of the
Quickfit & Quartz "vest pocket" chemical lab (C&EN, March 19, page 1362), w e learn from Jobn T. Stock of the University of Connecticut that this apparatus was developed from a design h e and M. A. Fill worked out while Stock taught at Norwood Technical College in London.
Vest pocket prototype
"Messrs. Quickfit ^ Quartz saw our prototype at the L^52 International Congress on Analytical Chemistry," Stock adds, "and asked our help in producing a commercial model. With their technical department, we spent several hundred houars in drafting, testing, and rebuilding: until a suitable production form wast evolved.
"Since we had mo direct financial arrangement with thte company, when they wished to reirrahurse us w e suggested they endow I^orwood's student fund so tha t our stucdents could benefit from our work. The firm readily agreed to this. The perpetual endowment provides an arward for the best chemistry student of the year / '
One of the units n o w is o n permanent exhibition in the crjLemistry section of the London Science Museixm, Stock informs us, and the equipment has been used, also, in a film made by BBC for television showing. Two other British firms also are marketing microchemical apparatus developed by Stock and his colleagues.
Challenge for Plastics - New York's Boarcd 'of Education has been looking for a n e w type of window for its schools, at ILeast for the lower floors where panes are frequently broken b y students who take a rather dim view of edhication. Various plastic windows have been tried. But though they won't shatter, all used so far have shown a tendency to cloud or scratch easily. However , the board has hopes that a monscratching, non-clouding pane will f>e developed, sooner or later.
C O M I N G N E X T W E E K
BAUSCH & TJOMB
Natural Gas as a Chemical Ra^w Material W i l l pet ro leum supplant natura l gas as source of most petrochemicals? C&EN surveys the field
Literature Searching Shifts to High Gear O p l e r and Nor ton tell how they search fo r chemical structures wi th h igh speed computers
2 7 2 8 C&EN M A Y 2 8. 1956
Makes industrial
tè$ting easy as
tuning your radio !
*07^&<6tS^~JS&*>££>£s
