Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds: 1945 to 1952

The National Bureau of Standards is engaged in fundamental and applied research in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering.Projects are conducted in fifteen fields: electricity and electronics, optics and metrology, heat and power, atomic and radiation physics, chemistry, mechanics, organic and fibrous materials, metallurgy, mineral products, building technology, applied mathematics, data process ing systems, cryogenic engineering, radio propagation, and radio standards.The Bureau has custody of the national standards of measurement and conducts research leading to the improvement of scientific and engineering standards and of techniques and methods of measurement.Testing methods and in struments are developed; physical constants and properties of materials are determined; and technical processes are investigated.ir Preface Late in 1951, the Thermodynamics Section of the National Bureau of Standards became actively engaged in an Isotope Exchange Data Program, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission Division of Research, which involved, in part, the preparation of bibliographies of research on the hydrogen isotopes for the years subsequent to 1945.As a result of this phase of the Program, annual bibliographies of deuterium and tritium research covering the years 1946 to 1952 and bibliographies of Government technical reports covering the period 1947 to November 1952 were prepared and distributed to chemists and physicists engaged in research on deuterium and tritium.The importance of the hydrogen isotopes as research tools and the utility of these bibliographies as an aid to scientific research relating to them has prompted the compilation of this Circular, which is a cumulative bibliography of published research on deuterium and tritium from about 1945 to 1952.