Soviet chemists explain how to measure thorium, in English
D. I. Ryabchikov and E. K. Gol’braikh’s monograph on analyzing thorium, a radioactive element important to nuclear and industrial research, reached English readers through Ann Arbor-Humphrey Science Publishers in 1969.
The story
Thorium is a radioactive element, and it mattered to nuclear and industrial research; working with it means being able to find it and measure how much of it is there. D. I. Ryabchikov and E. K. Gol’braikh wrote their monograph on how to do that in Russian, and it was published in Moscow in 1960.
Its chapters cover separating thorium out, detecting it and determining the amount, by laboratory methods both chemical and spectroscopic. The English version shows how technical knowledge travelled during the Cold War: a Soviet book, translated by A. Aladjem for the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, and published in Michigan by Ann Arbor-Humphrey Science Publishers in 1969, in the series Analytical Chemistry of the Elements.
This copy is in the original blue cloth, slightly worn, with a library’s embossed stamp and a small pencil mark, and no jacket. The text is readable in the pages photographed.
Details
- Date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor-Humphrey Science Publishers, Ann Arbor, Mich
- Edition
- English translation of Russian 1960 work, 1969 printing
- Binding
- cloth
- Condition
- Original blue cloth with slight wear, library embossing and small pencil mark. No jacket apparent; interior photographs show readable text.
- Stamp
- Embossed LIBRARY OF [partially illegible], PHO