Word: vanadium
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...years, the parched, mountainous wastelands of the Colorado Plateau were known for their scattering of dinosaur bones and the ruined homes of prehistoric cliff-dwelling Indians. But now the area is known for something far more important: uranium. At Uravan, Colo. last week, the U.S. Vanadium Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon, gave a fillip to the wastelands' glamorous new reputation and the boom under way. U.S. Vanadium opened the biggest uranium refining mill in the U.S.; by using a new process, it hopes to extract uranium from ores heretofore passed by. Spotted within a 200-mile radius...
...hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does...
...totted up the results of the conference last week, it found that it had given more than it had taken. The U.S. granted tariff cuts up to 50% on $419 million of imports (as of 1949). The cuts apply to such strategic metals as lead, chrome and vanadium, and such luxuries as orchids and champagne. In return, the U.S. got tariff reductions from other nations on $1,057,000,000 of exports. Included in this list: typewriters, motor vehicles, tires, electric motors and dynamos. But the U.S. tariff cuts were given "across the board" (i.e., concessions to one country were...
...moved in as president of Vanadium Corp. of America, reorganized its mining operations, and helped supply the uranium ore for the first atom bomb experiments. In World War II, Bransome went back to Washington as an industry representative in labor troubles, before the War Labor Board...
...Vanadium. 5. Uranium...