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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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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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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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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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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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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In the automotive industry, alloy wheels are wheels that are made from an alloy of aluminium or magnesium. Alloys are mixtures of a metal and other elements...
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British hydrogen bomb programme (section Tube Alloys)
the Second World War, Britain had a nuclear weapons project, codenamed Tube Alloys. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, British prime minister Winston...
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