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The mote general food processing appHcations requite data on dielectric and thermal properties (139). Considerable effort has been expended by food companies in the design of food for the microwave oven. These principles have been reviewed (140). The microwave oven at 2450 MH2, used for reheating, cooking, and thawing foods, may also be used for drying (qv), eg, flowers or food materials (141). Commercial microwave ovens ate used extensively in restaurants and fast-food estabUshments. 

THE WASTE WATER TREATMENT - OIL REMOVAL BY FREEZE AND THAW (MICROWAVE) METHOD... 

Superdex and prepacked Superdex columns are supplied in 20% ethanol. All Superdex may be autoclaved repeatedly at pH 7, 120°C without significant changes in porosity or rigidity. Freezing and thawing of Superdex-based gels may result in disruption of the bead structure and should be avoided. 

Preparation of Balanoglossus luciferin. The residue of the first pH 6 extraction above was re-extracted with 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer, pH 8. After centrifugation, the supernatant was used as the standard luciferin preparation. Luciferin was highly labile and easily inactivated at an extreme pH, by heat, and also by freezing and thawing. The instability resembled that of certain proteins. 

Fig. 66a. GPC traces of a PS sample (initial M = 4.34 xlO6, Mw/M = 1.06), initial concentration = 200 ppm before and after 50 cycles of freeze-and-thaw degradation (the curves are normalized to the same height), b Molecular weight distribution of the virgin...

Fig. 67. Kinetics of the degradation by freezing-and-thaw-ing dependence on the number of cycles and polymer molecular weight...

Figure 13. Survival (% unhemolyzed) vs. unfrozen water fraction of human red blood cells frozen very slowly at 0.6 °C/min (VSC) in solutions of glycerol-NaCI-H20 to temperatures producing the indicated concentrations of NaCI (m,) in the unfrozen channels. Warming and thawing were rapid (RW). (From Mazur et al., 1981.)...

Lovelock, J.E. (1953a). The haemolysis of human red blood cells by freezing and thawing. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 10,414-426. 

Lovelock, J.E. (1953). The mechanism of the protective section of glycerol against haemolysis by freezing and thawing. Biochemica Biophysica Acta, 11, 28-36. 

Oku, N., and MacDonald, R. C. (1983a). Differential effects of alkali metal chlorides on formation of giant liposomes by freezing and thawing and dialysis. Biochemistry. 22. 855-863. 

Another approaeh to the problem of providing an intravenous drug additive serviee is to add the drug to a small-volume (50-100 ml) infusion in a eollapsible plastie eontainer and store the preparation at -20°C in a freezer. The infusion ean be removed when required and thawed rapidly by microwave. Many antibiotics are stable for several months when stored in minibags at -20° C and are unaffected by the thawing process in a suitable microwave oven. Other antibiotics, e.g. ampieillin, are degraded when frozen. 

ASTM C666-97 Standard test method for resistance of concrete to rapid freezing and thawing. ASTM Book of Standards Volume 04.02, 2001. 

Some more recent field techniques have focused on the location of the preparation of field fortification samples and have taken some of the responsibility for the preparation of the field fortification samples from the field personnel and placed them with the analytical laboratory. For example, it is becoming more common for the analytical laboratory to prepare air sample field fortifications in the analytical laboratory, freeze them, and ship them to the field for use in a frozen state. Whereas there may be some advantage to this technique in that the air tube fortification samples may possibly be fortified more accurately in the laboratory under controlled conditions than if done in the field, there are some inherent scientific problems with this method. First, one reason for the field fortification is to test the ruggedness of the field techniques of the researcher under extreme field conditions. Second, the act of freezing and thawing the sorbent matrix within the air mbe itself may have an impact on the recovery of the analyte from the air tube after exposing the sorbent to field conditions... 

Fig. 3.4.11 Two-dimensional slice images ta- (e) freezing front and (f) freezing front. The ken from a three-dimensional Spiral-SPRITE measurement parameters were FOV 60x60 cyclical freezing and thawing experiment. x 60 mm, acquisition points 64 x 64 x 32,...

This methodology developed to observe water freeze-thaw in concrete materials, may be used quite generally to observe solid-liquid phase transitions in many different materials of industrial and technological interest. The method could be also applied to other problems involving freezing and thawing of water in confined pores. 

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