Tube Alloys was the research and development programme authorised by the United Kingdom, with participation from Canada, to develop nuclear weapons during...
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Quebec Agreement (section Tube Alloys)
industrial uses of nuclear energy. The agreement merged the British Tube Alloys project with the American Manhattan Project, and created the Combined...
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aluminium alloys. Chemical composition and form of wrought products. Chemical composition and form of products EN 754-2: Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Cold...
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zinc. There are two principal classifications, namely casting alloys and wrought alloys, both of which are further subdivided into the categories heat-treatable...
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During the Second World War, Chadwick carried out research as part of the Tube Alloys project to build an atom bomb, while his Manchester lab and environs...
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Bruno Pontecorvo (section Tube Alloys)
to prospecting for oil and minerals. In 1943, he joined the British Tube Alloys team at the Montreal Laboratory in Canada. This became part of the Manhattan...
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Round Tube ISO 6361: Wrought Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Sheets, Strips and Plates ASM Handbook Volume 2: Properties and Selection: Nonferrous Alloys and...
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and aluminium alloys. Cold drawn rod/bar and tube. Mechanical properties EN 755-2: Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Extruded rod/bar, tube and profiles...
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High Explosive Research (section Tube Alloys)
Britain. A new directorate known by the deliberately misleading name of Tube Alloys was created to coordinate this effort. Sir John Anderson, the Lord President...
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memorandum prompted Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys. Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist working in Britain, was instrumental...
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