VEB CARL ZEISS JENA: ULTRACENTRIFUGE DEVELOPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008201070008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT 1W$.0orl Zai , Jena: U?.t, acentrifuge
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1, .,+eveloptu t work on the new yx tracentrifuge being care .ed (; Y.c by Experimental
Design Off ice No. 1. oV-.l `. 'sue' VEB Carl Zeiss, Jena, was be-rig a dceieraatIed as ? 25X1
of S ptetuber 1955 so as to be able to show this inst:-'ament, at the l i Spx*iri .
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Fair of 1956. The ma ",Parts of the oez trifuge pv Yper and the a Gtac le
Sohlieren device are now being givenA sous applicstidn? of a r;?ftt-free. 4'i1uer..
2. The ultraoentrifbge has now been tested at a wed of 50,000 revolutions per,,
raznu ex.&xoising a power ,of 24.0,000 ` g9 m, and no further ::ia jor Jiff' :.cu1.tA s
woe .4perienced,. The irxstruraeny Will be sent to another klberatr+ry Qf T me pLani:
: be tested for density, compactnesseahd vacuum tlghtre~ :;. "'Abdichtung)t, The
laboratory which is to conduct these latter tests is headed sY, Hauensie:l...
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Present plans ca1.l for the Fkperin6ka'ta1 T?(~sign Office ~tia. 1. ( '":`oV/l) ta?kati~alId "+
another ultrocentrifuge insiorument for endurance and ~J`err'ori>:ancc tests.' it is
planned to mm this insttrc nt `at the same speed of 5(,0O0 .?evolutiors per- us1 uta,.
or within a 1ii:.1eranow of ter) p rmentt plus ( m1pus) mft:UL s? ur_-h 41 an 1r -
strumbnt begins- to diaintegr?ater
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CLASSIFICATION SF
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ARMY AIR /
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