Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-10-06 | Page 20 | U. of U. Chemistry Student Probes New Acid Uses

Aids to Industry U. of U. Chemistry Student Probes New Acid Uses I Industrial resrareh with sulfuric i acid with an eye toward discov-1 discov-1 erinf aida to Industry In making of all acids with a minimum of danger and difficulty la being advanced by one woman atudent at the Unlveraity of Utah. She is Marilyn Grace Alder, 23-year-old University of Utah researcher, re-searcher, who will receive her doctor doc-tor of philosophy degree from the university in June. Daring to Invade a field almost al-most predominated by men, Miaa Alder ia the first woman atudent to receive her Ph.D. degree in chemistry since the program was' inaugurated at the university. Working with Dr. Henry Eyring, dean, graduate school, in problems prob-lems of the complicated "Heterogeneous "Hetero-geneous Catalysis," Miss 'Alder hopes with the prominent researcher re-searcher aid to discover some of the meana to help production of i the dangeroua acids "It ia necessary for any acid 1 I formation to have a working etir-I etir-I fare produced from the gas." Miss i Alder said. "What we plan on discovering is the direct relationship relation-ship between the surface area and the properties and rate of decomposition decom-position of sulfuric gaa to form the acid." And if they succeed, production in industry may benefit in countless count-less ways from the discovery. Miss Alder has written one publication pub-lication of chemistry with the long, complicated name "Kinetics, Mechanism and Related Thermodynamic Thermo-dynamic Properties of the Catalyzed Cata-lyzed and Uncatalyzed Decomposition Decompo-sition of Ozone, in Aqueoua Solutions." Solu-tions." In experiments for the publication publica-tion Miss Alder determined the energy, ways snd best given off by decomposition of the dangerous gas, which ia more capable of explosion than oxygen. Miss Alder will receive her doctor doc-tor of philosophy degree in June of 1050.