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Computing Machines and the Patterns of Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Heats of Mixing of Liquids . . . . , . ,H. W . Schnaible, H. C. Van Ness, and J. M . Smith
. . , . . 147
Rate Studies in Tubular Reactors . . . . . . .
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. . . . , . , Eric Weger and H. C. Hoelscher
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Performance of Packed Columns: Part IV . . , . , . . . . . . . . . H. Z. Shulman and J. E. Margolis 157
Densities of Liquid-acetone-water Solutions up to Their Normal Boiling Points
K. T. Thomas and R. A. McAllister 161
Absorption and Stripping-factor Functions for Distillation Calculation by Manual- and Digital-computer
Methods , . . , , . . . . . . . . . . , . , . . . . . . . , . . . . , . . . Wayne C. Edmister 165
A Study of Laminar-flow Heat Transfer in Tubes , , . . . . . . . Joseph F. Gross and H. C. Van Ness 172
Dynamics of Liquid Agitation in the Absence of an Air-liquid Interface . David S. Laity and Robert E . Treybal 176
Froth-frothate Concentration Relations in Foam Fractionation . . . Victor Keuorkian and Elmer Z. Gaden, Jr. 180
Ion Exclusion Equilibria in the System Glycerol-sodium chloride-water-Dowex-50
i Edward L. Shurts and Robert R. White 183
Equilibrium in the System Cu"+-Na+-Dowex-50 . . . . . . , . . . H. C. Subba Rao and M. M. David 187
Vapor-liquid Equilibria of Benzene-n-hexane and Benzene-cyclohexane Systems
V. N. Kumarkrishna Rao, D. R. Swami, and M . Narasinga Rao 191
Diffusion in Three-component Gas Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. L. Toor 198
Simplified Flow Calculations for Tubes and Parallel Plates
R. R. Rothfus, D. H. Archer, I. C. Klimas, and K. G. Sikchi 208
Separation of Liquids by Thermal Diffusion , . . , , . . . . . . . . , John E. Powers and C. R. Wilke 213
Radioisotope Technique for the Determination of Flow Characteristics in Liquid-liquid Extraction Columns
S. E. Markas and R. B Beckmann 223
Reaction Kinetic Studies: Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Sec-butyl Alcohol to Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Joseph J. Perona and George Thodos 230
Phase Behavior of Hydrogen-light-hydrocarbon Systems . . A. Z. Benham, D. L. Katz, and R. B. Williams 236
Effect of Wall Roughness on Convective Heat Transfer in Commercial Pipes . J. W. Smith and Norman Epstein 242
Control of Continuous-flow Chemical Reactors . . . . . . . . Olegh Bilous, H. D. Block, and E. L. Piret 248
Volumetric and Phase Behavior of the Hydrogen-n-hexane System
W. B. Nichols, H. H. Reamer, and B. H. Sage 262
Flow of Steam-water Mixtures in a Heated Annulus and Through Orifices . . . . . John W. Hoopes, Jr. 268
Hydraulics of Wetted-wall Columns . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , E. R. Michalik 276
Some Remarks on Longitudinal Mixing or Diffusion in Fixed Beds . . Rutherford Aris and Neal R. Amundson 280
Mass Transfer in a Continuous-flow Mixing Vessel , , . . . . . . D. W . Humphrey and H. C. Van Ness 283
Ion Exchange Separation of Gram Quantities of Americium from a Kilogram of Lanthanum
D. E. Armstrong, L. B. Asprey, J. S. Coleman, T. K. Keenan, Z. E. ZaMar, and R. A. Penneman 286
Approximate Operational Calculus in Chemical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . , . . Stuart W . Churchill 289
Fluidization and Sedimentation of Spherical Particles . Thomas J. Hanratty and Abdemannan Bandukwala 293
Communications to the Editor . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8J
Exchange , . , . , . . , . . . . . . . . . , . , . . . . . 10J

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