Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Uranium reduction at Ames during the Manhattan Project

Uranium reduction at Ames during the Manhattan Project

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Uranium refining at Ames during the Manhattan Project

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  A "bomb" (pressure vessel) containing uranium halide and sacrificial metal, probably magnesium, being lowered into a furnace
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  After the reaction, remnant slag coats the interior of a bomb.
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  A uranium metal "biscuit" from the reduction reaction

Reason

• Encyclopedic value: critical chemical engineering advance for the first atom bomb, process still used today for uranium refining.
• Composition: left-right process flow and use of pictures vice words to communicate to non-chemists.
• Outreach: Director, Public Affairs, Ames donated larger images and clarified copyright

Articles in which this image appears

Manhattan Project, Ames process

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II (could also be material science or engineering)

Creator

unknown government photographer, TCO (upload and layout)

• Support as nominator --TCO (reviews needed) 22:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
• Comment: Great work on getting hold of bigger copies. However, we aren't in the habit of promoting .tif files- we'd need to see them converted to jpg. J Milburn (talk) 00:23, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Files converted. Also some improvement of rotation and crop done on the images. (Since no one had voted, just changed the original.)TCO (reviews needed) 03:49, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
• OTRS note: Pursuant to VRTS ticket # 2011070810013625 the three images are confirmed as public domain. — Cirt (talk) 02:11, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support per nomination. JJ Harrison (talk) 08:10, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support. Good stuff. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 08:56, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support. J Milburn (talk) 11:31, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support. Fascinating images.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:14, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, uber-vet. I feel that the caption for the first image needs a little skinnying somehow.TCO (reviews needed) 23:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

• Support. Nice, I suppose there are no colour ones?, 1945 b/w then. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 18:41, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support. Ticks all the boxes, nice to have a sequence of images, solid ev. What's the plan for this as a FP, each image separately or combined as one file? Fallschirmjäger ✉ 21:20, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

It's the assembly. I don't think they are as compelling as individual shots. To me, its the implicit process flow diagram, where you can really see. them. make. uranium!

They'll be promoted as a set. They'll all go in the gallery, but only one of them will hit the main page. J Milburn (talk) 21:09, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

That's a great idea, 'preciate! Would be curious which of the three you would choose?

P.s. I thought about doing some table or collage or even having block arrow and plus sign, but the default gallery (which I usually hate) works pretty decent here. Am re-using same layout method in the "Occurence" section of Fluorine". TCO (reviews needed) 00:41, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

• support very interesting images--Thecheesefiles (talk) 08:00, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Ames Process pressure vessel lower.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2011 (UTC) Promoted File:Ames Process pressure vessel remnant slag after reaction.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2011 (UTC) Promoted File:Ames Process uranium biscuit.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

• As a set. Makeemlighter (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2011 (UTC)