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Robert Katz Publications

1954

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The Separation Of Grain By Projection, Robert Katz, E. P. Farrell, Max Milner Jul 1954

The Separation Of Grain By Projection, Robert Katz, E. P. Farrell, Max Milner

Robert Katz Publications

A device is described which effects a continuous separation of internally infested wheat from sound wheat, and which separates wheat into a number of fractions of different test weight. A stream of wheat, projected into still air by rapidly moving belts, is dispersed by the combined effects of air drag and gravitation into numerous fractions which are caught in a series of hoppers. Infested kernels fall short of sound grain and are thus separated. Test weight varies progressively and characteristically with distance from the point of projection.


The Separation Of Grain By Projection. Ii. Systematic Differences In Physical Properties And Composition Of Wheat Fractions, Max Milner, E. P. Farrell, Robert Katz Jul 1954

The Separation Of Grain By Projection. Ii. Systematic Differences In Physical Properties And Composition Of Wheat Fractions, Max Milner, E. P. Farrell, Robert Katz

Robert Katz Publications

Analyses for test weight, 500-kernel weight, protein content, ash content, and hardness characteristics of fractions of 15 samples of hard red winter wheat, obtained by spectrometric separation, revealed high negative correlations in most cases between plumpness factors and protein and ash contents, and high positive correlations between plumpness factors and hardness, when the latter is determined with a single-stage instrument. The projection technique appears to provide a means for analyzing commercially mixed wheat for certain qualities of its components and it may be applied practically to separate either high protein fractions or high test weight fractions from ordinary commercial grain.


Radioactivity Of Sm153 And Eu155, M. R. Lee, Robert Katz Jan 1954

Radioactivity Of Sm153 And Eu155, M. R. Lee, Robert Katz

Robert Katz Publications

The radiations from Sm153 and Eu155 have been studied by means of a 180-degree, magnetic-focusing, variable-field beta-ray spectrometer-spectrograph using enriched materials. In the disintegration of 47.0-hr Sm153, conversion electrons of three gamma rays of energy, 0.0691, 0.1027, 0.548 Mev, and three beta-ray spectra whose end-point energy and relative intensity were 0.255 Mev, 9 percent; 0.685 Mev, 70 percent; 0.795 Mev, 21 percent, respectively, were observed. A fourth beta-ray spectrum of end-point energy 0.62 Mev and intensity less than 6 percent is postulated. A decay scheme in good agreement with these data and with nuclear shell theory …


Variable Field Beta-Ray Spectrometer-Spectrograph, Robert Katz, Milford R. Lee Jan 1954

Variable Field Beta-Ray Spectrometer-Spectrograph, Robert Katz, Milford R. Lee

Robert Katz Publications

A variable field 180° type beta-ray spectrometer- spectrograph has recently been constructed and placed in operation at Kansas State College. The instrument (Fig. 1) is presently operated as a variable field spectrometer of 15-centimeter radius, with data obtained by Geiger counter detection; or as a “fixed field” spectrograph with data obtained through the exposure of photographic film.