ENCLOSED PLEASED FIND ANNEX A OF MY RECENT REPORT, PLUS MY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT JANUARY 1 THROUGH MAY 31.

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 1, 1957
• Content Type: LETTER

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Gentlemen:
Enclosed pleased find Annex A of my recent report,
plus my statement of account January 1 through May 111.
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ANNEX A
Description of test Device
The intermediate experiments on the generation of
hydrogen from water and lithium hydride were carried on in
the appargtue shown in Figure 1. The flask A has a volume
.of 2. liters. The charge of lithium hydride weighs 300 grams
and fills the flask half full.
The apparatus is immersed in.the water of a stream to
the level B. The container C is initially filled with water.
To start. the apparqtus the cock D is opened. Water.runs into
A and the evolution of gas starts. This gas exhausts through
.the tube Z under water into the siphon F. Here it entrains water
which is carried up through the tube a to the larger tub F.
Here the hydrogen separates from the entrained water, and the
water runs back through the tube l into container C. This flow
keeps C full and the process running. The excess of water
carried up through tube a runs off to waste at J..
,As the process continues . the flask A becomes filled to
the level of the tube E with a saturated solution of lithium
'hydroxide. As still more water flows into A this lithium hy-
droxide-solution spills over into E, where it mixes with the
water of the stream at F. There is considerable surging at
F, and this flushes the lithium hydroxide, out into.the stream.
Some of the lithium hydroxide is, of course, carried up throung
a and the feed to A thereafter contains'some lithium hydroxide..
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As the reaction progresses the supply of lithium hydride.,
becomes exhausted, and the end comes quit$ abruptly'as
last of the lithium hydride in flask-'A disapears. Flow of
water up the siphon G is brisk to the end..
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