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• Elements, Heavy

• The Radiochemistry of the Transcurium Elements (1960), by G. H. Higgins
  • PDF at osti.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Radiochemistry of the Rare Earths, Scandium, Yttrium, and Actinium (1961), by Peter Cooper Stevenson and W. E. Nervik (PDF at osti.gov)

• The Radiochemistry of Protactinium (1959), by H. W. Kirby (PDF at osti.gov)

• Preparation and Characterization of High-Purity Thorium Dicarbide (Livermore, CA: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1964), by N. D. Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radiochemistry of Thorium (1960), by Earl K. Hyde
  • page images at National Academies
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (OTA-BP-O-83; Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Radiochemistry of Neptunium (1974), by G. A. Burney and R. M. Harbour (PDF at osti.gov)
• The Radiochemistry of Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium: An Updating (1986), by Richard A. Roberts, Gregory R. Choppin, and John F. Wild (PDF at osti.gov)

• The Radiochemistry of Plutonium (1965), by George H. Coleman (PDF at osti.gov)
• The Radiochemistry of Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium: An Updating (1986), by Richard A. Roberts, Gregory R. Choppin, and John F. Wild (PDF at osti.gov)

• Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Reactor-Related Options (1995), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Radiochemistry of Americium and Curium (1960), by Robert Allen Penneman and T. K. Keenan (PDF at osti.gov)

• Buildup of Cf-252 and Intermediate Isotopes from Cm-244 in a High Flux (Argonne, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, 1961), by Susanne E. Vandenbosch and Paul R. Fields (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buildup of Cf-252 and Intermediate Isotopes from Cm-244 in a High Flux (Argonne, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, 1961), by Susanne E. Vandenbosch and Paul R. Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radiochemistry of Americium and Curium (1960), by Robert Allen Penneman and T. K. Keenan (PDF at osti.gov)

• Hydrogen Peroxide Precipitation of Uranium (report of investigations #7931; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1974), by M. Shabbir and Kenneth E. Tame (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radiochemistry of Uranium (1962), by James E. Gindler (PDF at osti.gov)
• The Radiochemistry of Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium: An Updating (1986), by Richard A. Roberts, Gregory R. Choppin, and John F. Wild (PDF at osti.gov)

• Uranium Production Technology (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1959), ed. by Charles D. Harrington and Archie E. Ruehle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Textures in Rolled Uranium Rod (declassified edition; Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1956), by W. P. Chernock and L. W. Kates (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Discovery of the Elements (sixth edition, enlarged and revised; Easton, PA: Journal Of Chemical Education, c1956), by Mary Elvira Weeks, ed. by Henry Marshall Leicester, contrib. by F. B. Dains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Discovery of the Elements (fifth edition, enlarged and revised; Easton, PA: Journal of Chemical Education, c1945), by Mary Elvira Weeks, contrib. by F. B. Dains (page images at HathiTrust)
• Isotopic Mass Spectrometry of the Elements (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1963), by E. J. Spitzer and J. R. Sites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements, by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, ed. by A. P. Sinnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• The Radiochemistry of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen (1960), by J. Hudis (PDF at osti.gov)

• Metals and Their Chief Industrial Applications: Being, with Some Considerable Applications, the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in 1877 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by C. R. Alder Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• De Re Metallica, Translated From the First Latin Edition of 1556, With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy and Mining Law From the Earliest Times to the 16th Century (New York: Dover Publications, 1950), by Georg Agricola, ed. by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• De Re Metallica, Translated From the First Latin Edition of 1556, With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy and Mining Law From the Earliest Times to the 16th Century (London: The Mining Magazine, 1912), by Georg Agricola, ed. by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering (full serial archives)
• Acta Metallurgica (partial serial archives)
• Revue de Métallurgie (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering (full serial archives)
• Transactions of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (partial serial archives)

• The Physical Metallurgy of Cobalt-Base Superalloys (Columbus: Defense Metals Information Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1962), by H. J. Wagner and A. M. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Malleable Iron: A Handbook (Cleveland: Malleable Founders' Society, 1944), by Malleable Founders' Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vapor Pressures of Liquid Iron and Liquid Nickel (report of investigations 5364; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 19507), by Joe Perry Morris, Glenn R. Zellars, S. L. Payne, and Richard L. Kipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate, by Donald B. Wagner (HTML at donwagner.dk)

• Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting: Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding, Together with Related Methods and Materials Used in Metal Working and The Oxygen Process for Removal of Carbon, by Harold P. Manly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Regulation of Tissue Oxygenation (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences, 2011), by Roland N. Pittman (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• The Radiochemistry of Polonium (1961), by P. E. Figgins (PDF at osti.gov)

• Radiochemistry of Selenium (1965), by V. J. Molinski and G. W. Leddicote (PDF at osti.gov)
• Selenium: Its Electrical Qualities, and the Effect of Light Thereon (1877), by Willoughby Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Radium, and Other Radio-Active Substances: Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1904), by William Joseph Hammer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Radiochemistry of Sulfur (1962), by G. W. Leddicote (PDF at osti.gov)
• Ultima Thule: or, A Summer in Iceland (2 volumes; London and Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1875), by Richard Francis Burton
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Radiochemistry of Tellurium (1961), by G. W. Leddicote
  • PDF at osti.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Selected Values of Thermodynamic Properties of Metals and Alloys (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1963), by Ralph Hultgren, Raymond L. Orr, Philip D. Anderson, and K. K. Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineering Materials and Processes (third edition; Scranton: International Textbook Co., 1959), by Donald S. Clark, contrib. by William Howard Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metals and Their Chief Industrial Applications: Being, with Some Considerable Applications, the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in 1877 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by C. R. Alder Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Principles of Chemistry (2 volumes, based on the Russian 6th edition; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897), by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, ed. by T. A. Lawson, trans. by George Kamensky
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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