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Oct 29, 1925 

Preparation of some metals described
A.E. Van Arkel and J.H. de Boer describe the preparation of pure titanium, zirconium, hafnium, and thorium metals.
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May 22, 1928 

Process for protecting duralumin alloys patented
E.H. Dix, Jr., Alcoa, patents a process for protecting alloys of the duralumin type against corrosion by coating the strong alloy sheet on each side with a layer of aluminum of high purity.
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Apr 27, 1926 

Process for separating hafnium and zirconium halogenides described
A.E. Van Arkel and J.H. de Boer describe a process for separating hafnium and zirconium halogenides by adding a halogenide of an element of the fifth and sixth group to the mixture and then performing a fractional distillation.
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Oct 01, 1923 

Process of nitriding for surface hardening described
A. Fry, Krupp, describes the process of nitriding for surface hardening.
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Mar 01, 2001 

Publication of Robert Cahn's history of MSE
Elsevier Science Publishers in Amsterdam publish Robert Cahn's The Coming of Materials Science.
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1956 

r-type cracks can be initiated by grain boundary shearing
R.C. Gifkins proposes that round or r-type cracks can be initiated along grain boundaries by the action of grain boundary shearing.
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Dec 01, 1921 

Recrystallization diagram of aluminum presented
E. Rassow and L. Velde present a recrystallization diagram of aluminum.
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Jul 16, 1919 

Report on specific gravity vs. strength of wood
J.A. Newton and T.R.C. Wilson report the findings of the Forest Products Laboratory on the nature of the relations between the specific gravity or density of a wood and its strength properties.
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Feb 11, 1929 

Resinous products are produced from vinyl esters and aldehydes
Synthetic gummy and resinous products are produced from vinyl esters and aldehydes by H.W. Mathesan and F.W. Skirrow, Canadian Electro Products Company.
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Apr 08, 1919 

Resins added to paper/cloth
J.R. McLain impregnates thin cloth or paper with phenol- formaldehyde resins, using pressure to consolidate.
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May 30, 1922 

Salts are catalysts to harden urea-resin adhesives
F. Pollak reports the use of salts of strong acids, i.e. ammonium chloride or nitrate, as catalysts to harden urea-resin adhesives.
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Aug 1985 

Scientific American features article on STM
Scientific American featured an article entitled "The Scanning Tunneling Microscope" in its August 1985 issue (Vol. 253, pp. 50-56). This broadcast knowledge of the instrument to a wide audience.
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Jun 16, 1926 

Shear stress for one plane of atoms to slip should be 1/6 the shear modulus
J. Frenkel calculates that the shear stress required to cause one plane of atoms to slip over an adjacent one should be about one-sixth the shear modulus.
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1956 

Silver most effective in increasing Mg-Li alloy stability
Work conducted by W.R.D. Jones and G.V. Hogg, Cardiff University, on magnesium-lithium alloys indicated silver to be most effective in increasing alloy stability.
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Aug 01, 1957 

Sintering of thoria
C.A. Arenburg et al. report that the addition of calcium fluoride to vanadium pentoxide in the sintering of thoria was beneficial in the development of high density bodies.
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Aug 01, 1957 

Sintering of zircon and zirconia
E.P. Hyatt, C.J. Christensen, and I.B. Cutler report that ferric oxide aided in lowering the sintering temperatures of both zircon and zirconia bodies to give sintered bodies of high density.
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Mar 01, 1957 

Sintering with alumina
J.E. Burke claims that in sintering with alumina the grain boundaries act either as sinks or as diffusion paths for lattice vacancies.
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Sep 06, 1987 - Sep 11, 1987

Sixth Conference on Solid State Ionics
International Conference held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Jun 15, 1921 

Slip interference theory of hardening proposed
Z. Jeffries and R.S Archer propose slip interference theory of hardening.
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Aug 13, 1921 

Small amounts of boron can harden
R. Walter is apparantly the first to recognize that only a very small percentage of boron is required to produce an appreciable hardening effect.
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