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The transfer of elements of the Chief s office to Edgewood in the fall of 1942 led to some administrative difficulties, particularly in personnel matters. The Technical Division, OC CWS, for example, wanted to control its members located at Edgewood directly through the Washington office. The chief of the Technical Division felt that he could obtain more and better qualified employees in that way. The Chief, CWS, nevertheless, de- 

Commanding General, Chemical Warfare Center, Edgewood Arsenal, Md., 1 42— 6. 

The duties of the commanding general of the Chemical Warfare Center corresponded closely to those of a post commander. They included per-soiuiel administration, internal security, public relations, post inspection, and post engineer functions for all elements of the center. The centralization of administration for those activities invariably made for a greater degree of efficiency. For example, it was far more effective to have one central office administer personnel functions than to have a half dozen independent offices scattered over the post, as was formerly the practice.  

The Chemical Warfare Center included an Arsenal Operations Department which supervised strictly arsenal activities. As the new arsenals at Huntsville and Pine Bluff and later at Rocky Mountain got into operation, the nature of arsenal activities at Edgewood changed. These new arsenals took over the bulk of the arsenal operations in the CWS, and the Edgewood plants eventually assumed the role of pilot plants, in addition to handling a number of blitz jobs. 

On 6 May 1942 General Porter recommended to the Secretary of War that another CWS arsenal be erected near Denver, Colorado. Within a week Under Secretary of War Patterson issued a memorandum of approval for construction of the new arsenal. This memorandum stated that the new installation would be used for producing certain gases and for loading operations and that the necessary funds, except for the purchase of land, would be made available to the CWS by the Army Air Forces. 

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Tannor D J and Rice S A 1987 Photon echoes in multilevel systems Understanding Molecular Properties ed J Avery et al (Dordrecht Reidel) p 205... 

An extensive presentation of the fundamentals of NMR. Avery good chapter on relaxation, including general theory and mechanisms. A real classic still going strong . 

Smaller B, Remko J R and Avery E C 1968 Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of transient free radicals produced by pulse radiolysis J. Chem. Rhys. 48 5174-81... 

Dahl J P and Avery J (eds) 1984 Locai Density Approximations in Quantum Chemistry Soiid State Physics (New York Plenum)... 

Avery s paper prompted other biochemists to rethink their ideas about DNA One of them Erwin Chargaff of Columbia University soon discovered that the distribution of adenine thymine cytosine and guanine differed from species to species but was the same within a species and within all the cells of a species Perhaps DNA did have the capacity to carry genetic information after all Chargaff also found that regardless of the source of the DNA half the bases were purines and the other half were pyrimidines Significantly the ratio of the purine adenine (A) to the pyrimidine thymine (T) was always close to 1 1 Likewise the ratio of the purine guanine (G) to the pyrimidine cyto sine (C) was also close to 1 1 For human DNA the values are... 

The evidence obtained in compaction experiments is of particular interest in the present context. Figure 3.22 shows the results obtained by Avery and Ramsay for the isotherms of nitrogen on compacts of silica powder. The hysteresis loop moved progressively to the left as the compacting pressure increased, but the lower closure point did not fall below a relative pressure of 0-40. Similar results were obtained in the compaction of zirconia powder both by Avery and Ramsay (cf. Fig. 4.5), and by Gregg and Langford, where the lower closure point moved down to 0-42-0-45p° but not below. With a mesoporous magnesia (prepared by thermal decomposition of the hydrated carbonate) the position of the closure point... 

Experimental findings in the intervening years have tended to support and extend this concept. The results obtained by Ramsay and Avery in their studies of the effect of compaction on the nitrogen isotherms of two finely divided powders, one of zirconia and the other of silica, are especially instructive in the present context. As in earlier studies (cf. Chapter 3) the isotherm on the original powder was of Type II, but on compaction it first became Type IV with a well defined hysteresis loop, which moved... 

Fig. 45 Adsorption isotherms of nitrogen at 77 K on zirconia powder and its compacts. (A) uncompressed (B) compressed at 3 tonin (C) lOtonin (D) 30tonin" (E) 70tonin" (F) lOOtonin". Open symbob denote adsorption, solid symbols desoprtion. (Courtesy Avery and...

Figure 5.1 2 The J = 1 — 0 transition of cyanodiacetylene observed in emission in Sagittarius B2. (Reproduced, with permission, from Broton, N. W., MacLeod, J. M., Oka, T, Avery, L. W., Brooks, J. W., McGee, R. X. and Newton, L. M., Astrophys. J., 209, L143, 1976, published by the University of Chicago Press 1976 The American Astronomical Society)...

Mitchell A. Avery John R. Woolfrey University of Mississippi... 

D. T. Avery, Saving the P/anet with Pesticides andP/astic, The Environmental Triumph of High-Yie/dFarming, Hudson Institute, IndianapoHs, Ind., 1995, 432 pp. 

W. H. Avery, R. W. Blevins, G. L. Dugyer, and E. J. Francis, Executive Summary—Maritime and Construction Aspects of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Plant Ships, Apphed Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Apr. 1976. 

W. H. Avery and C. Wu, Renewable Energy from the Ocean, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. 

D. G. Avery and E. Davies, Uranium Enrichment by Gas Centrifuge Mills Boon Ltd., London, 1973. 

Avery wide range of. speed controls is available through this technology as it is possible to vary frequency on both sides ( ) of the rated frequency. 

M.C. Lovell, AJ. Avery and M.W. Vernon. Physical Properties of Materials, Chapter 7. Van Nostiand (1976). 

Goebel and Avery J Exptl Medicine 50 521 7929 Snyder and Link J Am Chem Soc 75 1758.] chromogenic substrate for P-galactosidases [Buoncore et al. J Appl Biochem 2 390 1980]. 

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