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X-ray spectroscopy Analytical method by which a sample is irradiated with X-rays, characteristic radiation being emitted after scattering from the specimen. The detection limits for various elements are of the ordering cm. ... 

Before withdrawing a sample it is necessary to agitate it, even if it is a gas, and eventually heat the sample being careful to stay below temperatures which could cause evaporation of the lighter components. 

Table 5.1 gives a sample calculation of the NHVj for toluene, starting from the molar enthalpies of formation of the reactants and products and the enthalpies of changes in state as the case requires. 

The criterion retained up to now in the specifications is not the true vapor pressure, but an associated value called the Reid vapor pressure, RVP. The procedure is to measure the relative pressure developed by the vapors from a sample of motor fuel put in a metallic cylinder at a temperature of 37.8°C. The variations characteristic of the standard method are around 15 millibar in repeatability and 25 millibar in reproducibility. 

Practically, one measures the quantity of total sulfur (in all its forms) contained in crude oil by analyzing the quantity of SO2 formed by the combustion of a sample of crude, and the result is taken into account when evaluating the crude oil price. When they are present, elementary sulfur and dissolved H2S can also be analyzed. 

Oxidation stability (gasoline) (induction period) NFM 07-012 ISO/DlS 7536 ASTM D 525 Time necessary for a sample bomb under oxygen pressure to reach the critical induction point... 

Reid vapor pressure NF EN 12 (M 07-007) ISO 3007 ASTM D 323 Pressure in a sample bomb held at 37.8°C... 

Vapor pressure of LPG NFM 41-010 ISO 4256 ASTM D 1267 Pressure in a sample bomb held at predetermined temperature... 

The oil density at surface is readily measured by placing a sample in a cylindrical flask and using a graduated hydrometer. The API gravity of a crude sample will be affected by temperature because the thermal expansion of hydrocarbon liquids is significant, especially for more volatile oils. It is therefore important to record the temperature at... 

This linearity is mainly observed in the frequency band located between 620 and 1000 Hz. This result is very important, because it allows from the Az value of a sample of the same structure and processing to determine the cementation thickness with great precision. 

The volume of defects is calculated using intensity evaluation. Considering the polychromatic radiation of microfocus X-ray tubes the X-ray beam is represented by an energy dependent intensity distribution Io(E). The intensity Ip behind a sample of thickness s is given by integrating the absorption law over all energies ... 

The physics of X-ray refraction are analogous to the well known refraction of light by optical lenses and prisms, governed by Snell s law. The special feature is the deflection at very small angles of few minutes of arc, as the refractive index of X-rays in matter is nearly one. Due to the density differences at inner surfaces most of the incident X-rays are deflected [1]. As the scattered intensity of refraction is proportional to the specific surface of a sample, a reference standard gives a quantitative measure for analytical determinations. 

The X-ray instrumentation requires a commercial small angle X-ray camera, a standard fine structure X-ray generator and a sample manipulator if scanning is requested. The essential signal is the relative difference between the refraction level Ir and the absorption level Ia. Both levels are measured simultaneously by two scintillation detectors. At fixed angles of deflection this signal depends solely on the inner surface density factor C and thickness d of the sample [2] ... 

In order to provide measuring of cracks depth on complicated profile areas there is a special function in the device. The function makes it possible to perform measurements by studying on a samples with defects of the measured depth. 

In practice, only a limited number of views are available the scanned sector is typically 180 or 360°, and the angular increment 2°. Moreover the frequency band-width of the employed pulses is very limited, typically one octave. The resolving power of the system is then limited. A typical numerical signal is composed of 1024 samples at a sampling period of 50 nsec. 

The evaluation of the deconvolution results show that time resolution is better or equal to 1 with the chosen processing time unit of 0.08 microseconds (respectively a rate of 12.5 MHz). First signals processed conservatively have been acquired with a samplerate of 12.5 MHz. A Fourier analysis shows that the signals spectras do not have energy above 2.0 MHz. This means that a sampling rate of 4.0 MHz would have done the job as well. Due to the time base of the ADC an experimental check with a sample rate of 5.25 MHz has been carried out successfully. 

Fig.l, Change of the reflected signal with scanning of a sample as parallelepiped with internal apertures. 1 - sample Ks 1 2 - sample iNs 2 3 -difference of the reflected signals 4 - difference of the reflected signals after mathematical processing. The area from 12 up to 14 corresponds to an additional aperture (defect). 

The measuren.cnts are performed on a sample made from Inconell IN 718 placed at our disposal by Me oren- und Turbinen-Union Miinchen GmbH (MTU). The sample is of disk shape and has a curved side and a flat side, see also fig. 6. On the curved side MTU had detected a segregation reaching to the surface but with unknown depth. It had been detected by segregation etching and its existence was confirmed by eddy current testing. Both methods are successful only in such a special case where the segregation extends to the surface. 

The reasoning behind the first change is that NDE made for Class should be a sample of the QC programme rather than a separate exercise. In this way the original purpose of the Classification checkpoints is restored and the overall quality level of welding can be monitored. 

The adsorption of stearic acid from n-hexane solution on a sample of steel powder is measured with the following results ... 

The contact angle for water on single-crystal naphthalene is 87.7° at 35°C, and ddjdT is -0.13 deg/K. Using data from Table III-l as necessary, calculate the heat of immersion of naphthalene in water in cal/g if a sample of powdered naphthalene of 10 m /g is used for the immersion study. (Note Ref. 135.)... 

Harkins and Jura [21] found that a sample of Ti02 having a thick adsorbed layer of water on it gave a heat of inunersion in water of 0.600 cal/g. Calculate the specific surface area of the Ti02 in square centimeters per gram. 

Since solids do not exist as truly infinite systems, there are issues related to their temiination (i.e. surfaces). However, in most cases, the existence of a surface does not strongly affect the properties of the crystal as a whole. The number of atoms in the interior of a cluster scale as the cube of the size of the specimen while the number of surface atoms scale as the square of the size of the specimen. For a sample of macroscopic size, the number of interior atoms vastly exceeds the number of atoms at the surface. On the other hand, there are interesting properties of the surface of condensed matter systems that have no analogue in atomic or molecular systems. For example, electronic states can exist that trap electrons at the interface between a solid and the vacuum [1]. 

In the previous sections we have described the interaction of the electromagnetic field with matter, that is, tlie way the material is affected by the presence of the field. But there is a second, reciprocal perspective the excitation of the material by the electromagnetic field generates a dipole (polarization) where none existed previously. Over a sample of finite size this dipole is macroscopic, and serves as a new source tenu in Maxwell s equations. For weak fields, the source tenu, P, is linear in the field strength. Thus,... 

Most fiindamental surface science investigations employ single-crystal samples cut along a low-index plane. The single-crystal surface is prepared to be nearly atomically flat. The surface may also be modified in vacuum. For example, it may be exposed to a gas that adsorbs (sticks) to the surface, or a film can be grown onto a sample by evaporation of material. In addition to single-crystal surfaces, many researchers have investigated vicinal, i.e. stepped, surfaces as well as the surfaces of polycrystalline and disordered materials. 

Once a sample is properly oriented and polished, it is placed into a UHV chamber for the final preparation steps. Samples are processed in situ by a variety of methods in order to produce an atomically clean and flat surface. Ion bombardment and aimealing (IBA) is the most conunon method used. Other methods include cleaving and film growth. 

Electrons are extremely usefiil as surface probes because the distances that they travel within a solid before scattering are rather short. This implies that any electrons that are created deep within a sample do not escape into vacuum. Any technique that relies on measurements of low-energy electrons emitted from a solid therefore provides infonuation from just the outenuost few atomic layers. Because of this inlierent surface sensitivity, the various electron spectroscopies are probably the most usefid and popular teclmiques in surface science. 

Photoelectron spectroscopy provides a direct measure of the filled density of states of a solid. The kinetic energy distribution of the electrons that are emitted via the photoelectric effect when a sample is exposed to a monocluomatic ultraviolet (UV) or x-ray beam yields a photoelectron spectrum. Photoelectron spectroscopy not only provides the atomic composition, but also infonnation conceming the chemical enviromnent of the atoms in the near-surface region. Thus, it is probably the most popular and usefiil surface analysis teclmique. There are a number of fonus of photoelectron spectroscopy in conuuon use. 

In this section, the wide diversity of teclmiques used to explore ion chemistry and ion structure will be outlined and a sampling of the applications of ion chemistry will be given in studies of lamps, lasers, plasma processing, ionospheres and interstellar clouds. 

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