Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 3856
- Salutation
- First Name
- Dorothy Dott
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Burgess
- Last Name
- Finn
- Address 1
- 1097 Highland Drive
- Address 2
- City
- Saint Albans
- State
- WV
- Zip Code
- 25177
- Phone
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- State Membership
- WV
- Status
- Alive
- Date of Birth
- 12/09/1923
- Date of Death
- Deceased At Join?
- Comments
- Running Ammonia Conversions in TNT Plant I worked in the lab there at the TNT plant. There were, oh, probably a dozen; we were all women. We had male supervisor. But all the people in the lab that worked were women. My main job was running ammonia conversions. What I would do, I would take a glass flask about the size of a grapefruit, go into the plant, get an ammonia sample—this is ammonia gas—and bring it back to the lab. I would run the analysis and give my analysis to the man that took care of the platinum screen that the ammonia would go through. This platinum screen acted as a catalyst; it was part of the process of a—well, it’s too detailed to go into all that. [laughs] I carried it out into the plant where the ammonia pipe was. I would open the stopcock for exactly one minute, and get one minute of gas into this glass bulb. Turn it, stop it, take it. Then I would walk back to the lab. And that’s when I would run the analysis on the gas I had inside the bulb that I had. There was one man in the lab. He had a little office just off of the lab where he did all of his work. He took care of a platinum screen that the ammonia passed through. When I go out to the plant to get the ammonia, this ammonia passes through a platinum screen, and that is part of the process of making TNT. Now, I don’t understand all the exact chemical reactions and all that. But anyhow, after I would run the analysis on the ammonia gas, give him my analysis, he would use my analysis to determine whether to clean the screen, replace the screen, or what needed to be done to the screen. That was his job, but he used my conversion analysis to determine that. So tRunning Ammonia Conversions in TNT Plant I worked in the lab there at the TNT plant. There were, oh, probably a dozen; we were all women. We had male supervisor. But all the people in the lab that worked were women. My main job was running ammonia conversions. What I would do, I would take a glass flask about the size of a grapefruit, go into the plant, get an ammonia sample—this is ammonia gas—and bring it back to the lab. I would run the analysis and give my analysis to the man that took care of the platinum screen that the ammonia would go through. This platinum screen acted as a catalyst; it was part of the process of a—well, it’s too detailed to go into all that. [laughs] I carried it out into the plant where the ammonia pipe was. I would open the stopcock for exactly one minute, and get one minute of gas into this glass bulb. Turn it, stop it, take it. Then I would walk back to the lab. And that’s when I would run the analysis on the gas I had inside the bulb that I had. There was one man in the lab. He had a little office just off of the lab where he did all of his work. He took care of a platinum screen that the ammonia passed through. When I go out to the plant to get the ammonia, this ammonia passes through a platinum screen, and that is part of the process of making TNT. Now, I don’t understand all the exact chemical reactions and all that. But anyhow, after I would run the analysis on the ammonia gas, give him my analysis, he would use my analysis to determine whether to clean the screen, replace the screen, or what needed to be done to the screen. That was his job, but he used my conversion analysis to determine that. So that was mainly what I did. We did other jobs, too, like things in the lab. But mainly, that was my biggest job. hat was mainly what I did. We did other jobs, too, like things in the lab. But mainly, that was my biggest job.
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