Aggregates, description

In the present situation, it is a rather unattractive idea to try to construct a detailed mathematical description of all the suggested mechanisms for DOM production. The expectation would be that this could rapidly lead into a jungle of poorly supported hypotheses, poorly quantified parameters, and a dependence on species composition, which is another poorly defined aspect of the present models. A possible alternative would be to explore the use of more aggregated descriptions. Two simple alternative hypotheses of this kind would be that production is either (1) proportional to plankton... 

The remainder of this contribution is organized as follows. In section C2.6.2, some well studied colloidal model systems are introduced. Methods for characterizing colloidal suspensions are presented in section C2.6.3. An essential starting point for understanding the behaviour of colloids is a description of the interactions between particles. Various factors contributing to these are discussed in section C2.6.4. Following on from this, theories of colloid stability and of the kinetics of aggregation are presented in section C2.6.5. Finally, section C2.6.6 is devoted to the phase behaviour of concentrated suspensions. 

Silicates in Solutions. The distribution of sdicate species in aqueous sodium sdicate solutions has long been of interest because of the wide variations in properties that these solutions exhibit with different moduli (23—25). Early work led to a dual-nature description of sdicates as solutions composed of hydroxide ions, sodium ions, coUoidal sdicic acid, and so-called crystaHoidal sdica (26). CrystaHoidal sdica was assumed to be analogous to the simple species then thought to be the components of crystalline sdicate compounds. These include charged aggregates of unit sdicate stmctures and sdica (ionic micelles), and weU-defined sdicate anions. 

Suppose we start with an automaton A that is given a tape with a blueprint B a on it. The composite machine will then construct a copy of A but it is not, in and of itself, self-reproducing i.e, the aggregate machine A + creates A, not A + B. This situation is not remedied by simply adding a description of B to B, since in this case A + yields A + B and not A + B +Ba Thus, whatever we... 

A knowledge of the concentrations of all reactants and products is necessary for a description of the equilibrium state. However, calculation of the concentrations can be a complex task because many compounds may be Imked by chemical reactions. Changes in a variable such as pH or oxidation potential or light intensity can cause large shifts in the concentrations of these linked species. Aggregate variables may provide a means of simplifying the description of these complex systems. Here we look at two cases that involve acid-base reactions. 

Besides the experimental data mentioned above, the kinetic dependencies of oxide adsorption of various metals are also of great interest. These dependencies have been evaluated on the basis of the variation of sensitive element (film of zinc oxide) conductivity using tiie sensor method. The deduced dependencies and their experimental verification proved that for small occupation of the film surface by metal atoms the Boltzman statistics can be used to perform calculations concerning conductivity electrons of semiconductors, disregarding the surface charge effect as well as the effect of aggregation of adsorbed atoms in theoretical description of adsorption and ionization of adsorbed metal atoms. Considering the equilibrium vapour method, the study [32] shows that... 

The physicochemical forces between colloidal particles are described by the DLVO theory (DLVO refers to Deijaguin and Landau, and Verwey and Overbeek). This theory predicts the potential between spherical particles due to attractive London forces and repulsive forces due to electrical double layers. This potential can be attractive, or both repulsive and attractive. Two minima may be observed The primary minimum characterizes particles that are in close contact and are difficult to disperse, whereas the secondary minimum relates to looser dispersible particles. For more details, see Schowalter (1984). Undoubtedly, real cases may be far more complex Many particles may be present, particles are not always the same size, and particles are rarely spherical. However, the fundamental physics of the problem is similar. The incorporation of all these aspects into a simulation involving tens of thousands of aggregates is daunting and models have resorted to idealized descriptions. 

In the results the emissions of mercury appear to have a very substantial contribution for the human toxicity impact score. These emissions are caused by the coproduction of chlorine and sodium hydroxide by electrolysis using a mercury cell. However, this technique is phased out. Therefore, the process descriptions in the Ecoinvent database do not represent up to date technology. In the Ecoinvent database the process for PVC production, in which chlorine is used as one of the compounds, is an aggregated processes based on, seemingly outdated, data from PlasticsEurope. These outdated data also influence the impacts related to waste treatment by incineration because sodium hydroxide is necessary for the waste incineration process. 

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