Open AccessPhysics progress report
Author(s) -
Malcolm M. Haring
Publication year - 1948
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/116635
Subject(s) - polonium , tantalum , physics , nuclear physics , engineering physics , materials science , metallurgy
This document is the December 1948 Physics Division Progress Report from the Mound Laboratory. Items covered include: (1) measurement of the vapor pressure of polonium, (2) x-ray diffraction analysis of tantalum, (3) use of the vacuum balance, and (4) updates on efforts to prepare an x-ray target, measurement of the resistivity of polonium, and construction of polonium gamma standards