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The University is active in a number of fields of research. In 
chemistry, it is noted for its investigations of catalysis, for example, 
catalytic reduction of aromatic nitro compounds, catalytic properties of 
palladium-silver alloys, and catalytic hydrogenation of fats. The Chemistry 
Department has a Laboratory on Organic Catalysis. 
Chemists at the University also were instrumental in developing an 
amalgam method for producing rare metals of high purity. This method is in 
industrial use today. Other fields of interest include chemistry of salts 
and fertilizers, problems of coulometric and amperometric titration, solu- 
bility of metals in mercury, theory of solutions, and photoluminescence of 
copper bromide. 
In the fields of physics and mathematics, workers at the University 
have studied such varied problems as convective heat transfer, heat and 
mass exchange in drying processes, diffusion of gases in binary mixtures, 
automatic control systems, gas dynamics, such as flow of gas around a burning 
flame and high-velocity gas flow, and combustion chambers and furnaces. In 
the Laboratory for Thermophysical Problems under L. A. Vulis, research is in 
progress on modeling methods for solving problems in heat conductivity, 
hydrodynamics, and diffusion theory of neutron transfer. Workers at this 
laboratory have developed an analog device called a static electrointegrator. 
Other fields of interest in physics include magnetohydrodynamics, photo- 
multipliers, transport processes of matter impulses and energy, and theory 
of relativity. Other investigations include differential equations, 
simulation of nuclear-reactor criticality, boundary-value problems, and 
gravitational equations for a system of bodies. The University has a com- 
puting center. 
The University is quite active in the field of nuclear physics. It 
has investigated problems such as nuclear fission by cosmic-ray mesons, 
neutron-density distributions, emission of high-energy alpha particles in 
nuclear fission by protons, and neutron radiation in the earth's surface. 
It has studied cosmic rays, particularly the relationship between solar 
bursts and flares of cosmic rays, and monitored neutrons in cosmic rays. 
Much of this nuclear research is done by the University's Laboratory for 
Nuclear Research under the direction of V. V. Cherdyntsev. This laboratory 
recently claimed the discovery of a new, naturally occurring radioactive 
element. 
The courses offered at the University include finance and credit 
(banking), accounting, economics of the national economy, jurisprudence, 
Russian language and literature, native language and literature, history, 
mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physical geography, 
economic geography, and journalism. 
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Name: Kazakh Technological Institute 
(Kazakhskiy tekhnologicheskiy institut) 
