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Uranium in Steel.
Pittsburgh, PA, Standard Alloys Company, 1921, First printing. Hardcover. Very scarce annal in the history of this controversial element which was first discovered in 1789. Standard Alloys Company maintained research laboratories which {further} proved Uranium's capacity to produce types of steels with "preeminent capacities to resist fatigue, as far as it is possible to measure these stresses by the present art of dynamic testing..." Chapters on history of Uranium, its nature, its "radio activity" and half-life, its benefits and influence in the steel-producing industry, Methods of Quanitative Analysis, its microscopic identification, etc. Includes several three-color test charts. Some corner wear and wear to spine caps. 32 pp..
Offered for US$ 125.00 by: Aardvark Books - Book number: 54513