New England

Thorium occurs in thorite and in thorianite. Large deposits of thorium minerals have been reported in New England and elsewhere, but these have not yet been exploited. Thorium is now thought to be about three times as abundant as uranium and about as abundant as lead or molybdenum. Thorium is recovered commercially from the mineral monazite, which contains from 3 to 9% Th02 along with rare-earth minerals. 

R. Kasperson, Public Ficceptance ofWaterKeuse University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H., 1977. 

A variety of models have been developed to study acid deposition. Sulfuric acid is formed relatively slowly in the atmosphere, so its concentrations are beUeved to be more uniform than o2one, especially in and around cities. Also, the impacts are viewed as more regional in nature. This allows an even coarser hori2ontal resolution, on the order of 80 to 100 km, to be used in acid deposition models. Atmospheric models of acid deposition have been used to determine where reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions would be most effective. Many of the ecosystems that are most sensitive to damage from acid deposition are located in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Early acid deposition models helped to estabUsh that sulfuric acid and its precursors are transported over long distances, eg, from the Ohio River Valley to New England (86—88). Models have also been used to show that sulfuric acid deposition is nearly linear in response to changing levels of emissions of sulfur dioxide (89). 

The colonists are said to have practiced distillation before 1650. The Virginia setders made brandies and those in New England and the middle colonies distilled a variety of products including apple whiskey (apple jack), mm, and brandy. The first beverages made by the colonists from com and rye were distilled on Staten Island, New York, in 1640 by William Kieft. Rum was produced in Barbados from molasses around 1650 and in colonial Massachusetts in 1657. 

Northern New England Poison Center, 313, 318 Norwegian Occupational Hygiene Association, 276 Nova Chemicals Corporation, 149 NOVAFOS-M , parathion, 100... 

P. N. Rylander and X. Vaflor, paper presented at the New York-New England Catalysis Society, Spring Symposium, New Haven, Connecticut, March, 1974. 

Acid deposition is of greatest concern wherever there are large amounts ol lossil fuel combustion upwind of an area. Eastern North America, large areas of Europe, and eastern Asia all receive acidic deposition. Acidic deposition is especially a concern when poorly buffered soils, with little acid-neutralizing capacity, are impacted. In North America, large areas of eastern Canada, the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and sections of New England all are considered acid sensitive areas, where resistant bedrocks and thin soils prevent significant neutralization of acidity. 

Hammond, N. B., The Jet Compressor as Applied to the Gas Industry, presented before the New England Gas Association, Operating Dhision Meeting, Providence, R. f, June 1958. 

The collection of maple sap and its conversion to syrup or sugar illustrate many of the principles covered in this chapter. Moreover, in northern New England, making maple syrup is an interesting way to spend the month of March (Figure A), which separates midwinter from "mud season."... 

E. Rapkin, Guide to Preparation of Samples for Liquid Scintillation Counting , New England Nuclear Corp, Boston, Mass (1975)... 

This was a problem to all the Allies but it was a Picatinny researcher who solved it. Thru patient burning of samples of cotton cloth, for burning time and amount of residual ash, he narrowed down the fabrics to a few good possibilities. Then he traveled to cotton mills in New England and the South to seek still better cloth. Finally a cotton fabric was developed as a suitable substitute for silk... 

The first reports of plastic in the North Atlantic indicated the presence of 50-12,000 particles/km in the Sargasso Sea in 1972 (52) and from 0-14.1 particles per m in coastal waters of southern New England (42), where the main source was river-borne effluents from plastic fabrication plants (44). Plastic objects discarded from boats and from recreational activities on beaches were the main sources of debris in Narragansett Bay, being deposited at a rate of 9.6 g m of beach front per month (53). During a detailed survey off the southeast coast of the United States (43, 54), fragments of plastic were present in about 70% of the samples collected from the waters of the continental shelf, the continental slope and the Gulf Stream between Florida and Cape Cod, 50% of those from the Caribbean Sea, and 60% of those from the Antilles Current. Since unprocessed plastic was more prevalent in continental shelf waters and fabricated objects were common offshore but rare near land, the authors surmised... 

Dunne, T. and Black, R. D. (1970) Partial area contributions to storm runoff in a small New England watershed. Water Resour. Res. 6,1296-1311. 

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