Abstract
The organic yields(i.e., fraction of nuclear events resulting in organic compound formation) of the radioactive neutron capture reactions of the halogens in purified aromatic halides have been determined in the liquid and solid state, in the presence of scavenger, elemental halogen for thermal atoms, and in the presence of oxygen. Among the important results are; (1) organic yields of the halides are due in part to hot processes and in part to thermal processes; (2) temperature (from liquid state to solid state); (3) the organic yield of chlorobenzene is the same in the solid phase as in the liquid phase whereas the yields of the bromo-and iodobenzene are higher in the solid.