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PAN-EARTH Sub-Saharan Africa Workshop Report

Description: Report on the PAN-EARTH Sub-Saharan Africa Workshop. This workshop focused on the effects of global climate changes on the agriculture and ecology of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: September 1989
Creator: Bezuneh, Taye; Harwell, Mark A.; Menyonga, Joseph Mufu; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Ackerman, Thomas P.; Aho, Nestor et al.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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The Intentional Use of Antimony and Manganese in Ancient Glasses

Description: Title and Abstract in English, French and German, while paper is in English. The use of manganese as a colorant in ancient glasses has long been recognized and the recent X-ray diffraction measurements of Turner and Rooksby have established that compounds of antimony were used extensively as opacifiers in such glasses. The analysis at Brookhaven National Laboratory of some three hundred ancient western glasses of the second millennium B.C. through the first millennium A.D., of which more than t… more
Date: 1962
Creator: Sayre, Edward V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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