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USBM Technical Papers:

TP 11 / The Use of Mice and Birds for Detecting Carbon Monoxide after Mine Fires and Explosions, $ 10

TP 22 / Electrical Symbols for Mine Maps, $ 5

TP 32 /  The Cementing Process of Excluding Water from Oil Wells as practiced in California, $ 5

TP 34 / Experiments with Furnaces for a Hand-Fired Return Tubular Boiler, $ 5

TP 39 / The Inflammable Gases in Mine Air, $ 5

TP 43 / The Influence of Inert Gases on Inflammable Gaseous Mixtures, $ 5

TP 54 / Errors in Gas Analysis due to Assuming that the Molecular Volumes of All Gases are alike, $ 5

TP 81 / The Vapor Pressure of Arsenic Trioxide, $ 5

TP 91 / A Convenient Multiple-Unit Calorimeter Installation, $ 5

TP 114 / Heat Transmission through Boiler Tubes, $ 5

TP 134  /  Explosibility of Gases from Mine Fires, $ 10

TP 135 / Bibliography of Recent Literature on Flotation of Ores, $ 5

TP 141 / Laboratory Determination of the Explosibility of Coal Dust and Air Mixtures, $ 10

TP 142 / Vapor Pressures of Various Compounds at Low Temperatures, $ 5

TP 143 / The Ores of Copper, Lead, Gold and Silver, afb, 1916, reports from the Western Mining Areas of the U.S. on mining activites, $ 50

TP 144 / The Quick Determination of Incombustible Matter in Coal and Rock-Dust Mixtures in Mines, $10

TP 145 / Sensitiveness to Detonation of Trinitrotoluene and Tetranitromethylanilin, $ 5

TP 149 / Answers to Questions on the Flotation of Ores, $ 7

TP 150 / Limits of Complete Inflammability of Mixtures of Mine Gases and of Industrial Gases with Air, $ 5

TP 154 /  Suggestions for Improved Methods of Mining Coal on Indian Lands in Oklahoma, $ 5

TP 158 /  Compressibility of Natural Gas and its Constituents with analyses of natural gas from 31 cities in the United States, $ 5

TP 163 /  Physical and Chemical Properties of Gasolines sold throughout the U.S. during the Calendar year 1915, $ 5

TP 167 / Men Who Received Bureau of Mines Certificates of Mine Rescue Training, July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1912, $ 5

TP 174 / Suggestions for the Safe Operation of Gasoline Engines in Mines, $ 5

TP 176 / Bibliography of Recent Literature on Flotation of Ores, $ 5

TP 181 /  Determination of unsaturated hydrocarbons in gasoline, 4 5

TP 182 /  Floatation of Chalcopyrite in Chalcopyrite-Pyrrhotite Ore of Southern Oregon, $ 18

TP 184 /  Weights of various coals, $ 5

TP 185 / Use of the Interferometer in Gas Analysis, $ 5

TP 190 / Methane accumulations from Interrupted Ventilation, $ 10

TP 191 / Central State Heating, $ 5

TP 204 / Economic Operation of Steam Turbo-Electric Stations, $ 5

TP 208 / How to Improve the Hot-Air Furnace, $ 5

TP 212 / The Determination of Combustible Matter in Silicate and Carbonate Rocks, $ 5

TP 217 / Saving Coal in Steam Power Plants, $ 5

TP 218 / Boiler Water Treatment, $ 5

TP 219 /  Combustion and flue gas analysis, $ 5

TP 220 /  Burning steam sizes of Anthracite, $ 10

TP 221 /  Saving Steam in Industrial heating systems, $ 5

TP 222 /  Method of Administering Leases of Iron-Ore Deposits belonging to the State of Minnesota, $ 10

TP 228 / The Relative Safety of Brass, Copper, and Steel Gauzes in Miners’ Flame Safety Lamps, $ 10

TP 230 / Determination of Molybdenum, $ 10

TP 233 /  The Properties of some stoneware clays, $ 5

TP 234 / Sensitiveness of Explosives to Frictional Impact, $ 5

TP 235 /  Safe Storage of Coal, $ 10

TP 236 /  Abatement of Corrosion in Central Heating Systems, $ 5

TP 237 / Safe Practice in Using Wire Ropes in Mines, $ 5

TP 238 / Indicators for Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in Air and Flue Gas, $ 5

TP 239 / Coke-Oven Accidents in the United States, $ 5

TP 240 / Boiler and Furnace Testing, $ 5

TP 241 / Blowholes, Porosity, and Unsoundness in Aluminum-Alloy Castings, $ 10

TP 242 /  Why and how coke should be used for domestic heating, $ 5

TP 243 /  Development of liquid oxygen Explosives during the war, $ 15

TP 244 / Use of Stenches as a Warning in Mines, $ 8

TP 247 / Perforated Casing and Screen Pipe in Oil Wells, $ 10

TP 249 / The Determination of Oxides of Nitrogen, $ 5

TP 250 / Metal-Mine Accounting, $ 8

TP 253 /  Effects of Gasoline removal on the heating value of Natural Gas, $ 5

TP 254 /  The Analysis of Sulphur forms in Coal, $ 6

TP 259 / Production of Explosives in the United States, $ 5

TP 261 /  Oil Camp Sanitation, $ 5

TP 262 / Certain Interfacial Tension Equilibria Important in Floatation, $ 10

TP 263 / Design and Operation of a Low-Pressure Absorption Plant, $ 10

TP 264 / Preliminary Investigations of Storage Battery Locomotives, $ 10

TP 268 /  Preparation and uses of tar and its simple crud derivatives, $ 5

TP 270 / The Detection and Estimation of Platinum in Ores, $ 5

TP 271 /  State Mining Laws on the use of Electricity in and about coal mines, $ 5

TP 272 / Permeation of Oxygen Breathing Apparatus by Gases and Vapors, $ 7

TP 273 /  Smoke Abatement, $ 5

TP 274 /  Efficiencies in the use of Bituminous Coking Coal as water-gas generator fuel, $ 5

TP 276 / Safe Mechanical Equipment for Use in Shaft Sinking, $ 6

TP 277 / Application of the Geophone to Mining Operations, $ 8

TP 278 / The Sugar-Tube Method of Determining Rock Dust in Air, $ 10

TP 287 / Preparation of Light Aluminum-Copper Casting Alloys, $ 10

TP 290 / Inclusions in Aluminum-Alloy Sand Castings, $ 10

TP 312 / Leacing Nonsulphide Copper Ores with Sulphur Dioxide, $ 25

TP 313 / Producing of Explosives in the United States, $ 5

TP 314 / Metal-Mine Fires, $ 10

TP 316 /  Tests of a Powered-Coal Plant, $ 5

TP 319 /  Methods of decreasing evaporation losses of Petroleum, $ 5

TP 321 / Anhydrous Aluminum Chloride, $ 5

TP 324 / Uses of Water in the Oil-Shale Industry, $ 15

TP 331 / Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1921, $ 15

TP 332A / U.S. Government Specification for Lubricants and Liquid Fuels, $ 5

TP 333 / Permissible Explosives, Mining Equipment and Apparatus Approved Prior to January 1, 1923, $ 5

TP 335 /  Bituminous Coal as generator fuel for large water-gas sets with waste-heat boilers, 4 5

TP 337 /  Carbon Monoxide hazards from House Heaters burning natural gas, $ 5

TP 350 /  Accidents at Metallurgical Works in the United States, $ 5

TP 352 /  Detection of small quantities of petroleum vapor with the Burrell Methane Indicator, $ 5

TP 397 / Composition of Materials from various Elevations in an Iron Blast Furnace, $ 5

TP 418 / Electric-Furnace Cast Iron, $ 5

TP 424 / Thermodynamic Properties of Oxygen and Nitrogen, $ 5

TP 427 / Propagation of Flame in Mixtures of Natural Gas and Air, $ 5

TP 442 / The Blast-Furnace Stock Column, $ 10

TP 445 / Specific Heats of Gases at High Temperatures, $ 5

TP 450 / Inflammatbility of Mixed Gases, $ 5

TP 451 / Calcium Sulphate Retarders for Portland Cement Clinker, $ 5

TP 476 / Stock Distribution and Gas-Solid Contact in the Blast Furnace, $ 20

TP 483 / Re-forming Natural Gas, $ 5

TP 492 / Deoxidation of Steel with Silicon, $ 5

TP 543 / Comparison of Small and Large Scale Experimental Carbonizing Apparatus, $ 5

TP 546 / Theory of the Torsion Balance, $ 5

TP 553 / Protection of Equipment Containing Explosive Acetone-Air Mixtures by the Use of Diaphragms, $ 5

TP 560 / Corrosion of Steel by Gases Containing Traces of Hydrogen Sulphide: Effect of Pressure and Moisture Conditions, $ 5

TP 582 / Methods for the Detection and Determination of Carbon Monoxide, $ 15

TP 626 /  Analyses of West Virginia Coals, $ 30

TP 635 / Design of Air-Blast meter and Calibrating Equipment, $ 5