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B. J. Fergus, "The Distribution of Lignin in Wood as Determined by Ultraviolet Microscopy," Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,... 

M. Fujii, Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1969. 

Environmental. Stringent environmental laws require that nitrogen oxides (NO ) and sulfur oxides emission from furnaces be drastically reduced. In many parts of the world, regulations require that NO be reduced to 70 vol ppm or lower on a wet basis. Conventional burners usually produce 100 to 120 vol ppm of NO. Many vendors (McGill, John Zink, and North American) are supplying low NO burners. 

Friend, W.H., Murphy, C.L., and Shanfield, I., Review of Meteoroid-Bumper Interaction Studies at McGill University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract Report No. NASA CR-54857, Cleveland, OH, 187 pp., August 1966. 

Attila E. Pavlath received his diploma as a Chemical Engineer from the Technical University of Budapest and his Ph D. in chemistry from the Hungarian Academy of Science. He taught at his alma mater before he left Hungary after the 1956 revolution. After spending some time at McGill University in Montreal and Stauffer Chemical in Richmond, California, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Albany, California, in 1967 where he is a research leader. 

Els and McGill [48] reported the action of maleic anhydride on polypropylene-polyisoprene blends. A graft copolymer was found in situ through the modifier, which later enhanced the overall performance of the blend. Scott and Macosko [49] studied the reactive and nonreactive compatibilization of nylon-ethylene-propylene rubber blends. The nonreactive polyamide-ethylene propylene blends showed poor interfacial adhesion between the phases. The reactive polyamide-ethylene propylene-maleic anhydride modified blends showed excellent adhesion and much smaller dispersed phase domain size. 

David Hart, Ohio State University David Harpp, McGill University... 

The first detailed model of the atom, proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1898, was based upon the expectation that the atom was a sphere of positive electricity in which electrons were embedded like plums in a pudding. This picture of the atom was not particularly satisfying because it was not useful in predicting or explaining the chemical properties of the atom. Finally, in 1911, a series of experiments performed in the McGill University laboratory of Ernest Rutherford showed that Thomson s picture of the atom had to be abandoned. 

Table II 24) R. McGill, Evaluation of Explosives Submitted to the Explosives Research -Laboratory in 1941 , OSRD 830 (Aug 1942), 64 25) H.E. Fierz-David R. Sponagel, Helv...

Notes 1) Nitration with mixed nitric-sulfuric acid gives a less satisfactory product and a lower yield (about 52%). 2) Attempts to prepare the product starting with 2-nitro-2-(m-nitrophenyl)-propanediol-1,3 or its dinitrate were unsuccessful Its expl props were detd by R. McGill et al at the NDRC Res Lab at Bruceton, Pa and were found to be as follows ... 

The original practical method of RDX synthesis, as developed by Hale of PicArsn in 1925 (Ref 1), involves treatment of Hexamine with a large excess of abs nitric acid and results in 40% yield based on 2 moles of RDX from 1 mole of Hexamine. Ross and Schiessler (Ref 15), in 1940 at McGill University, succeeded in synthesizing the same compd from paraformaldehyde (p-CH20) and AN in Ac20 in 35% yield based on p-CH20. (Subsequently, after WWII, this was found to be identical to the secret process of Eble, developed in Ger). 

The McGill workers postulated that, in their process, methylene nitramine (CH2=N—N02) is formed as an intermediate, which then tri-merizes to RDX. However, the existence of methylene nitramine has never been proven. Werner Bachmann (Ref 2) of the University of Michigan, during WWII, conceived of a combination process in which the Hale nitrolysis of Hexamine would occur first, and the remaining methylene would be converted to RDX by the Ross-Schiessler route. Using three feed streams Ac20, Hexamine In acetic acid, and AN in nitric acid, the Bachmann process results in an 80% yield of RDX (two moles from one of Hexamine), including a small amount of HMX. 

Heat Sensitivity. Henkin McGill (Ref 29) report the following explosion temperatures for FA ... 

Foxlee, Doctoral Thesis, McGill Univ, Montreal (1946) 5) K. Noma, Sh. Oya K. Nakamura,... 

Department of Chemistry, McGill Um ersity PO Box 0070, Montreal 101, Quebec, Canada... 

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