Chemical composition analyzers

Conventional chemical analysis techniques such as wet analysis or atomic absorption (AA) can provide a relatively accurate chemical composition for studying the Ca/P ratio and stoichiometric composition of HA. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), typically in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) or transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has also been used extensively to analyze chemical composition, both quickly and directly. This technique allows the incident electron beam to be moved from one surface region to another for mapping the localized surface elemental composition and their distribution. However, low concentrations of elements are not measured accurately when using EDS. 

Industrial Applications Analyzing chemical compositions for carbonized distillate of coal-tar refined soft pitch detecting absolute amount of resin-bound hydroxyl groups ... 

Ref 2. The brazing filler metal is analyzed for those specific elements for which values are shown. If the presence of other elements is the amount of those elements is deterrnined to ensure that the maximum total of each is <0.15 wt%. Remainder of material is Cu. Value represents maximum. Remainder of material is Mn. Table 7. Chemical Composition Requirements for Nickel and Cobalt Filler Metals indicated in the analysis. ... 

Standardized test methods for analyzing the chemical composition, viscosity, and physical properties of cellulose esters have been adopted by the ASTM and are described in substantial detail (110). 

Nepeta (Lamiaceae) is a genus of perennial or annual herbs found in Asia, Europe and North Africa. About 250 species of Nepeta are reported of which, 67 species are present in Iran. Some species of this genus are important medicinal plants and their extracts have been used for medicinal purposes. Aerial parts of Nepeta sintenisii Bornm. was subjected to hydrodistillation and the chemical composition of isolated essential oil has been analyzed by GC/MS method for first time. Identification of components of the volatile oil was based on retention indices relative to n-alkanes and computer matching with the Wiley275.L library, as well as by comparison of the fragmentation patterns of the mass spectra with those reported in the literature. 

For water, organic and water-organic metal salts mixtures the dependence of integral and spectral intensities of coherent and non-coherent scattered radiation on the atomic number (Z), density, oscillator layer thickness, chemical composition, and the conditions of the registering of analytical signals (voltage and tube current, tube anode material, crystal-analyzer) was investigated. The dependence obtained was compared to that for the solid probes (metals, alloys, pressed powder probes). 

In photoluminescence one measures physical and chemical properties of materials by using photons to induce excited electronic states in the material system and analyzing the optical emission as these states relax. Typically, light is directed onto the sample for excitation, and the emitted luminescence is collected by a lens and passed through an optical spectrometer onto a photodetector. The spectral distribution and time dependence of the emission are related to electronic transition probabilities within the sample, and can be used to provide qualitative and, sometimes, quantitative information about chemical composition, structure (bonding, disorder, interfaces, quantum wells), impurities, kinetic processes, and energy transfer. 

The path of failure of an adhesive joint can give information about the mechanism of failure if analysis of the elemental and chemical composition can be conducted along the path. Several authors have performed such analyses by loading the adhesive joint until it fractures and then using XPS to analyze each side of the fracture. 

Electrostatic and adsorption effects conspire to make aqueous GPC more likely to be nonideal than organic solvent GPC. Thus, universal calibration is often not obeyed in aqueous systems. Elence, it is much more critical that the standard chosen for calibration share with the polymer being analyzed chemical characteristics that affect these interactions. Because standards that meet this criterion are often not available, it is prudent to include in each analysis set a sample of a secondary standard of the same composition and molecular weight as the sample. Thus, changes in the chromatography of the analyte relative to the standards will be detected. 

The process of burning out the impurities is slowest in the open-hearth furnace. This implies there is plenty of time to analyze the melt and add whatever is needed to obtain the desired chemical composition. Manganese, vanadium, and chromium are frequent additives. The properties of the finished steel depend upon the amount of carbon left in and upon the identity and the quantity of other added elements. Soft steel, for example, contains 0.08-0.18 weight percent carbon structural steel, 0.15-0.25% hard steel ox toot steel, 1-1.2%. 

All but three of these samples were analyzed chemically and spectroscopically by the Smith-Emery Company of Los Angeles. The chemical analyses (Table 1) agreed with the synthetic compositions to within +0-3%. Duplicate 2 g. samples of each of sixteen of the alloys were analyzed and found to have the same composition, showing the alloys to be homogeneous. 

As illustrated by Eig. 4.13, an electron microscope offers additional possibilities for analyzing the sample. Diffraction patterns (spots from a single-crystal particle and rings from a collection of randomly oriented particles) enable one to identify crystallographic phases as in XRD. Emitted X-rays are characteristic for an element and allow for a determination of the chemical composition of a selected part of the sample. This technique is referred to as energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). 

Equilibria considerations on solution-grown zinc chalcogenide compounds have been put forward by Chaparro [28] who examined the chemical and electrochemical reactivity of solutions appropriate for deposition of ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe (and the oxide ZnO) in order to explain the results of recipes normally used for the growth of such thin films. The author compared different reaction possibilities and analyzed the composition of solutions containing zinc cations, ammonia, hydrazine, chalcogen anions, and dissolved oxygen, at 25 °C, by means of thermodynamic diagrams, applicable for concentrations usually employed in most studies. 

However, analyses of the interface surrounded by some medium are not easy. When an interface of interest is exposed to a vacuum, electron-based or ion-based methods are available to determine the chemical composition and molecular structure of the top layers. The charged particles with limited penetration range result in a good vertical resolution. Buried interfaces are beyond the range of penetration. Photons, an alternative class of probe particles, have better ability for penetration. When the linear response to the incident electric field is analyzed, the vertical resolution is limited to the order of the wavelength, which is greater than the thickness of the top layers. 

Ishibashi et al. (1994a) analyzed the chemical composition of white smoker from which anhydrite is precipitating at the North Fiji Ridge and showed that the chloride... 

The chemical composition of the soil and groundwater, specifically the amount of natural organic matter (NOM) and other reduced species, such as iron (II) or manganese (II) often analyzed as the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the soil, or the soil oxidant demand. 

Bielaet al. (2002,2003) prepared and analyzed linear and star-shaped polylactides. Using LCCC, star-shaped samples were separated with regard to the number of arms. Essentially, this separation was driven by the number of hydroxy groups that constituted the end group of each arm. Two-dimensional LC was used to show that the LCCC separation was exclusively driven by chemical composition irrespective of molar mass. 

Neural networks are extensively used to develop nonparametric models and are now the method of choice when electronic noses are used to analyze complex mixtures, such as wines and oils.5 Judgments made by the neural network cannot rely on a parametric model that the user has supplied because no model is available that correlates chemical composition of a wine to the wine s taste. Fortunately, the network can build its own model from scratch, and such models often outperform humans in determining the composition of oils, perfumes, and wines. 

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