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Show Standard Oil Co. Utilizes" AtoraiT v Energy For Pipeline Trausmissin. fit One of the first commercial uses of atomic energy in American' Ameri-can' industry was announced June 14 by Standard Oil Company Com-pany of California. It involves the use of radioactive tracer materials in ihe transmission of oil products through a pipe line now under construction from Salt Lake City to Pasco, Wash. This use of radioactive material ma-terial was described by H. R. Cuyler, Standard's general sales manager, at a luncheon celebrating celebrat-ing the completion and opening of the pipe line as far as Boise. Cuyler said the radioactive material, ma-terial, produced in the Atomic Energy commission laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., is being used to determine the "interface," "inter-face," or dividing point between shipments of various products. "It involves the use of a chemical tracer material which has been exposed to radiation bombardment in art1 atomic pile," he said. "The radioactive material diluted by thousands of times its volume of oil, becomes be-comes a tracer liquid, and this is the form in which it is used in the pipe line. "Each time the Salt Lake pump station changes the product pro-duct being pumped through the line, a fraction of an ounce of diluted tracer liquid is added to , the oil stream bew products. As the i, een 1 two products mov"011 f ''J line, the tracer m68 alnp ' At each point ,mu0ves ltk' are delivered" Pr! igf merits, using g'Jve in attached to the pi ,uril Lttf he arnval of SJ these instruments thCer- hi Wl ors know when one DK A completed its arriL duc'h I to change the S' fc Smother Sm-other tank." ;reani to s, 1 Cuyler said that n, ' sc ve materiaiVS ft safe," and s t a 1 1 U .,st Lve amount of radiation? t ! much less than that P i ? m many articles UL CUrr; daily hfe. used m ,,; ricf . Construction of the in which this radioUlpe terial is being used Ve T products carrier I? ? 3n - in operation from s,u , "k l to Twin Falls since I l and began Pumping proJd ,n'. to Boise last week dUcts- |