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The effects of the constants in the van der Waals equation become more marked as the pressure is increased above atmospheric. Early measurements by Regnault showed tlrat the PV product for CO2, for example, is considerably less tlran that predicted by Boyle s law... 

Newell, E. Homer. Beyond the Atmosphere Early Years of Space Science, 1980. 

There arc only a few reports concerning Tc concentrations in the atmosphere. Early measurements of Tc in the surface air of Seville, Spain, where no nuclear installations existed, were done. Filter samples taken from 1965 to 1967 were analyzed, llie average radioactivity of " Tc per 1000 m- of air yielded 1.23 mBq in 1965, 0.71 mBq in 1966 and 0.78 mBq in 1967 144). In 1988 a compilation of "Tc radioactivity data and ""Tc/ "Cs activity ratios determined in rainwater and air was reported (Table 4.2.A). 

Nonradiogenic noble gases were degassed to the atmosphere early. The solid reservoir volume from which these gases were lost is unconstrained. This atmospheric Xe was fractionated by losses to space, so that the atmosphere became enriched in the heavy isotopes. 

The carbon dioxide normally present in air neither initiates nor accelerates corrosion. Steel specimens rust in a carbon-dioxide-free atmosphere as readily as in the normal atmosphere. Early experiments by Vernon showed that the normal carbon dioxide content of air actually decreases corrosion [16], probably by favoring a more protective rust film. 

LIRTS would have wide application for studies of cool objects including planetary atmospheres, early and late type stars, the interstellar medium and external galaxies. Recent and unexpected discoveries have shown that observations in this spectral region are vital to our understanding of many important phenomena, including that of star formation, which occur in visually obscured regions. 

Mines near Cripple Creek, Colorado, and in the East Tintic Mining District in Utah share a unique history of rock gas. Before the use of mechanical ventilation, rock gas (which consists mostly of nitrogen and carbon dioxide) issued from the mine rock strata during decreasing atmospheric pressure (approach of a low-pressure system) and displaced the mine atmosphere. Early day Cripple Creek miners carried a flame safety lamp that was placed in clear view of the heading in which they were working. They left the mine immediately if the flame started to go out. 

Assume an accidental release of a mixture of gaseous alkanes and alkenes into an urban atmosphere early in the morning. If the atmosphere at the release site is monitored for these compounds, what can be said about their total and relative concentrations at the end of the day Explain. 

The astrochemistty of ions may be divided into topics of interstellar clouds, stellar atmospheres, planetary atmospheres and comets. There are many areas of astrophysics (stars, planetary nebulae, novae, supemovae) where highly ionized species are important, but beyond the scope of ion chemistry . (Still, molecules, including H2O, are observed in solar spectra [155] and a surprise in the study of Supernova 1987A was the identification of molecular species, CO, SiO and possibly ITf[156. 157]. ) In the early universe, after expansion had cooled matter to the point that molecules could fonn, the small fraction of positive and negative ions that remained was crucial to the fomiation of molecules, for example [156]... 

Silver Catalyst Process. In early formaldehyde plants methanol was oxidized over a copper catalyst, but this has been almost completely replaced with silver (75). The silver-catalyzed reactions occur at essentially atmospheric pressure and 600 to 650°C (76) and can be represented by two simultaneous reactions ... 

In the early 1920s Badische Arulin- und Soda-Fabrik aimounced the specific catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at 20—30 MPa (200—300 atm) and 300—400°C to methanol (12,13), a process subsequendy widely industrialized. At the same time Fischer and Tropsch aimounced the Synth in e process (14,15), in which an iron catalyst effects the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to produce a mixture of alcohols, aldehydes (qv), ketones (qv), and fatty acids at atmospheric pressure. 

The definition of polymer thermal stabiUty is not simple owing to the number of measurement techniques, desired properties, and factors that affect each (time, heating rate, atmosphere, etc). The easiest evaluation of thermal stabiUty is by the temperature at which a certain weight loss occurs as observed by thermogravimetric analysis (tga). Early work assigned a 7% loss as the point of stabiUty more recentiy a 10% value or the extrapolated break in the tga curve has been used. A more reaUstic view is to compare weight loss vs time at constant temperature, and better yet is to evaluate property retention time at temperature one set of criteria has been 177°C for 30,000 h, or 240°C for 1000 h, or 538°C for 1 h, or 816°C for 5 min (1). 

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