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Solid state NMR is a relatively recent spectroscopic technique that can be used to uniquely identify and quantitate crystalline phases in bulk materials and at surfaces and interfaces. While NMR resembles X-ray diffraction in this capacity, it has the additional advantage of being element-selective and inherently quantitative. Since the signal observed is a direct reflection of the local environment of the element under smdy, NMR can also provide structural insights on a molecularlevel. Thus, information about coordination numbers, local symmetry, and internuclear bond distances is readily available. This feature is particularly usefrd in the structural analysis of highly disordered, amorphous, and compositionally complex systems, where diffraction techniques and other spectroscopies (IR, Raman, EXAFS) often fail. 

It is clear from the RSF data shown in Figure 2 that even without the use of RSFs, a semiquantitative analysis accurate to within an order of magnitude is quite possible, and GDMS indeed will provide full coverage of the periodic table. The analysis of a material of unknown composition will be elementally complete to trace levels, with no glaring omissions that may eventually return to haunt the end user of the material. 

E is an error matrix taking errors of measurement (e. g. random noise) into consideration. The term component describes such chemical or physical states the spectra of which cannot be generated by a linear combination of the other components. Thus, components can be elements, chemical compounds - stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric - or even states induced by physical processes, provided that the spectra differ significantly, e. g. in line shapes or line shifts. 

Two simple examples of fields are the rational numbers, Q and the set of integers Zp = (0,1,..., p — 1, where p is prime and addition and multiplication are defined modulo p. The latter is an example of a finite field - that is, of a field containing only a finite number of elements. Since CA are almost always defined so that individual sites take on one of a finite number of values, if those values happen to be elements of a finite field then the dynamics can be well understood by using some of the general properties of that field. An elementary property of finite fields... 

Spectroscopic detectors, which measure different spectral properties (absorption, fluorescence, scattering, etc.), may be element selective, structure or functionality selective, or property selective. The most common... 

The transition of empirical alchemy in 18th century Europe to scientific chemistry allowed the discovery of more and more new elements through the thirst for knowledge, intuition, patience, and even luck. Known materials such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and lead were "suspected" to be elements relatively early. Despite all the best efforts, these materials could not be broken down into further components, and hence their being elements was consistent with the then generally recognized definition of John Dalton, which was also staunchly supported by Antoine de Lavoisier. 

Silver occurs naturally in several oxidation states, the most common being elemental silver (Ag°) and the monovalent ion (Ag+). Soluble silver salts are, in general, more toxic than insoluble salts. In natural waters, the soluble monovalent species is the form of environmental concern. Sorption is the dominant process that controls silver partitioning in water and its movements in soils and sediments. As discussed later, silver enters the animal body through inhalation, ingestion, mucous membranes, and broken skin. The interspecies differences in the ability of animals to accumulate, retain, and eliminate silver are large. Almost all of the total silver intake is usually... 

In the same way, consider the various documents of a development to be elements in a structure that you are editing (see Figure 6.44). The goal of the project is to fill in all the slots in the structure and make them all consistent when finished. Feel free to begin at the bottom, if appropriate, and don t worry if things get inconsistent en route provided that they come back in line at some planned milestone. 

The usual form of elemental oxygen is a diatomic gas, O2, mass 32, that is indispensable to life for many organisms, including human beings. Elemental oxygen as O2 forms about 21% of our atmosphere. You can read all about oxygen in Nick Lane s book Oxygen the Molecule that Made the World. ... 

The development of this technique has proceeded along several independent paths with two principal lines being elemental analyzer-IRMS and capillary gas chromatography-IRMS. In elemental analyzers, samples are combusted to CO2, N2, SO2, and H2O, which are either chemically trapped or separated on GC columns. The advantages of these techniques are an automated preparation with low costs per sample and a large sample through-put. 

The method of lines can handle size-dependent growth rates, fines removal and product classification and is not restricted in the choice of the elements of the output vector y (t). The population densities at the grid points are system states, thus moments, L, CV, population densities at the grid points and the number or mass of crystals in a size range can be elements of y (t). 

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) had come to be very widely used in chemical laboratories. Both substances were thought to be elements no one had ever broken them down into their chemical components. Nevertheless, Davy began to wonder if they might not turn out to be compounds after all, so he decided to subject them to electrolysis to see what happened. Realizing that the more powerful the batteries used, the better the chances of success, he had an assistant connect together all the batteries that the institution possessed. He then dissolved some caustic potash in water and passed an electrical current through the solution. 

The data for the 2.9 V/nm catalyst is shown in Fig. 3b. The activity of this catalyst was lower and the experiments had to be performed at 480°C. Over this catalyst, a fraction of the butane which reacted in the pulse remained adsorbed. The fraction decreased from 60% in the first pulse to 30% to 40% after a few pulses. To calculate the degree of reduction of the catalyst, the adsorbed material was assumed to be elemental carbon, and the hydrogen that was not accounted for in the detected products was assumed to have reacted with oxygen of the vanadia phase to form water which subsequently desorbed. Upon reoxidation of the catalyst, the adsorbed carbon was recovered as carbon oxides. 

The actinide solid state properties are to a large extent based on the properties of the 5f wave-functions. Central to the actinide solid state research has been the co-existence of evidence and of concepts pointing clearly to the recognition of light actinides as being elements in which a metallic bond is enhanced by the overlapping of 5 f wave-functions. The narrow band, itinerant character of the 5 fs is similar to the one d-shells have hence, the classification of these elements as 5 f-transition metals. 

On the basis of his quantum theory of atomic structure, Niels Bohr believed that, since Urbain s celtium had been obtained from the rare earths, it could not be element 72, for the latter must be quadrivalent rather than trivalent and must belong to the zirconium family. He showed that the chemical properties of an atom are determined by the number and arrangement of the electrons within it and especially by the number... 

So these Paracelsian principles were not meant to be elements in themselves, but rather a material manifestation of the ancient elements. By the end of the seventeenth century, things had moved... 

Virtually all the semiconductors deposited by CD are compound semiconductors, the one exception being elemental Se. This has been deposited from solutions of selenosulphate, which rapidly form Se if acidified. By control of the pH, this reaction can be controlled to allow Se deposition to occur. Se films have also been deposited from colloids of Se (prepared by reducing SeOi solutions) by photodeposition, whereby the light activates the formation of films. 

There are a certain number of materials, all very compounded, which are combined rather ordinarily in most bodies, water, earth, fire or inflammable matter, salts, etc. Some of us take them all to be elements, others, according to their predelections, have taken only two or three, or only one as first principle. But having given them this quality, they have been more purified in imagination, than they are when they come under our senses. Earth is one of those which has been accorded this range. ... 

Protein phosphorylation may be used to switch enzyme activities on and off. The same is true for dephosphorylation of enzymes. In the cell, we often find phosphorylation cascades in which several phosphorylation reactions are connected to one another. Dephosphorylation reactions may also be elements of these cascades. Furthermore, networks of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins exist which permit the cell to respond to external stimuli in a finely tuned way. 

A material that arises from a compound may or may not be elemental. The only way to find out is to perform further experiments that attempt to create two or more new substances out of that one. 

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