Lecture notes for the class "Freshman Chemistry," Ch 1a, Ch 1b, Ch 1c, California Institute of Technology. December 8, 1940 - January 23, 1942. Part 1 - Page 5  Larger Images / More Information. 24 pp.

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Activity Listings

• Letter from LP to American Philosophical Society. RE: Informs them that he will not be able to attend the Lecture on February 14th. [Filed under LP Science: American Philosophical Society, 1936-1963, 1989, 1991: Box #14.011, Folder #11.1]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, JACS, RE: Regrets he will be unable to prepare a review of :Free Radicals as Intermediate Steps in the Oxidation of Organic Compounds” and suggests Dr. Coryell for the job. [Letter from Lamb to LP February 1, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #191.1, file:(Journal of the American Chemical Society)]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, JACS, RE: Submits for publication “The Crystal Structures of the Tetragonal Monoxides of Lead, Tin, Palladium and Platinum.” [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #191.1, file:(Journal of the American Chemical Society)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. RE: Explains why he didn't come by his office after the meeting. Informs him of his expense account for the meeting. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1945: Box #14.013 Folder #13.7]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Henry Eyring, Department of Chemistry, Princeton, RE: Responds that they do not currently have a post-doctoral position available for Dr. Chakravorty, but that he will keep him in mind. [Letter from Eyring to LP January 28, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #110.8, file:(Eyering, Henry, 1935-1936, 1939, 1941, 1949, 1964-1966)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. T. K. Sherwood, National Defense Research Committee. [Telegram from LP to Chadwell February 6, 1941, Telegram from Chadwell to LP February 10, 1941] [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.2]

  February 8, 1941

  Dr. T.K. Sherwood

  National Defense Research Committee

  1530 P Street NW.

  Washington, D.C.

  Dear Dr. Sherwood:

  If you desire us to make one or more instruments for oxygen analysis, as mentioned in your letter of January 25 an dour subsequent telegrams, I would like to have specifications, especially with respect to the following points. I think that we could provide an instrument satisfying almost any particular specifications, provided that some leeway were granted in other respects.

  1. Should the range of oxygen partial pressure be 0 to 160 mm. or 0 to 200 or still larger?

  2. Do you want measurements made on the air of the room, or measurements made on small gas samples, which would be introduced into a chamber in the apparatus by displacement of the gas already there? We could make the apparatus with a volume to be displaced by the gas as small as about 10 cc.

  3. Is it all right to require that the instrument be level during the measurement?

  4. Are there any restrictions on weight or volume? The instrument would weigh perhaps three pounds and be six inches in largest dimension, but it could be made lighter and smaller.

  5. Will there by much variation in total pressure? If all measurements are made at atmospheric pressure we would not worry about adjusting the instrument to be independent of variations in total pressure.

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  6. Would +/- 3mm. partial pressure of oxygen be satisfactory rather than +/- 3% accuracy?

  7. Should the instrument be adjusted to be an independent of temperature variations, or would it be satisfactory if it read correctly at room temperature?

  8. Is a relaxation time of 10 seconds satisfactory?

  9. I should point out that nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and chlorine dioxide would cause errors, each millimeter of one of these gases corresponding to about 1.2 mm. of oxygen pressure.

  Very truly yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:jr

• Letter from LP to Prof. George Glockler, Department of Chemistry, State University of Iowa, RE: “I am glad to have your letter about Ikeda and Ikawa, and I am giving the second blank to Ikawa to fill out.” [Letter from Glockler to LP January 28, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #136.15, file:(Glockler, George)]
• Letter from LP to Prof. J. Murray Luck, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, RE: Regrets he cannot attend the symposium as he has already agreed to lecture at the University of Chicago summer school which begins before the symposium in June. [Letters from Luck to LP January 31, 1941, February 19, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #230.7, file:(L: Correspondence, 1941)]
• Letter from LP to the Board of Directors of City Trusts, Girard College, RE: Regrets he will be unable to attend the Luncheon preceding the Alexander Dalles Bache Celebration on February 15th at 1:00 p.m. [Undated (February?) invitation from the Board of Directors and President to LP] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.6, file:(G: Correspondence, 1941)]