- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
An instrument resembling the bathythermograph and operating in a similar fashion, with the additional ability of obtaining water samples at discrete depths within the limit of operation. Basically, a bathythermograph to which 12 small seawater sampling bottles are attached, it performs the same functions as a cast of Nansen bottles and reversing thermometers to limited depths, but with less accuracy. It is useful for studies of shallow water areas, bays, and estuaries, where rapidity of sampling is of greater importance than the degree of accuracy of temperatures.
Industry:Mining
An instrument sensitive to ionizing radiations used in prospecting for radioactive deposits.
Industry:Mining
An instrument similar to the konimeter but differing in that the air to be sampled undergoes humidification prior to being blown through the jet. The velocity of impingement is about 200 to 300 m/s and the jet is rectangular instead of circular. The prior humidification of the air causes condensation of moisture upon the dust particles by super saturation due to the pressure drop at the jet, and so assists in the deposition and retention of the particles on the slide. The Bausch and Lomb dust counter is the American counterpart of this instrument.
Industry:Mining
An instrument similar to the ordinary light microscope, but producing a much magnified image, which is received on a fluorescent screen and is recorded by using a camera. Instead of a beam of light to illuminate the material, a parallel beam of electrons is used. Its magnification is up to about 100,000 times.
Industry:Mining
An instrument so designed that it is capable of exerting a tensile, compressive, or transverse stress on a specimen under test. Further, it can be adapted for the determination of Brinell hardness, ductility, cold bend, and other properties. The machine consists essentially of three systems: loading, weighing, and indicating, the loading being applied either mechanically or hydraulically.
Industry:Mining
An instrument that consists essentially of two pitot tubes one of which is turned upstream and the other downstream and that is used to record autographically the velocity of a flowing liquid or gas.
Industry:Mining
An instrument that depends on the heat output of burning methane for its action. There are two varieties: those having a controlled flame burning within them and those in which combustion of the methane occurs on electrically heated filaments. A combustible gas alarm making use of the flame principle is the Naylor Spiralarm.
Industry:Mining
An instrument that detects and measures ionizing radiation by observing the electrical current created when radiation ionizes gas in the chamber, making it a conductor of electricity.
Industry:Mining
