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The condition of the magnetic particle suspension is controlled by an automated ASTM-bulb. The bulb is connected to the currently used Magentic particle suspension tank by a bypass, so the suspension in use is flowing through the bulb too. In user defined periods a valve is closed and the Magentic particle suspension remained into the bulb is analysed. The automatic bulb has the ability to measure the extinction and transmission of the suspension related to the time (Figure 1, Figure 2)... 

Effective temperature (ET ) is a single number representing those combinations of temperature and humidity which are equivalent in terms of comfort. It is defined as the dry-bulb temperature of the environment at 50% relative humidity. Standard effective temperature loci for normally clothed, sedentary persons are plotted on Eigure 3. The sensation of comfort depends in part upon the wetness of one s skin. Thus, as a person becomes more active the effective temperature lines become more hori2ontal and the influence of relative humidity is more pronounced. 

I. The wet-bulb or saturation temperature line gives the maximum weight of water vapor that I kg of dry air can cariy at the intersecting dry-bulb temperature shown on the abscissa at saturation humidity. The partial pressure of water in air equals the water-vapor pressure at that temperature. The saturation humidity is defined by... 

By cooling a certain surface so cold that water starts condensing on it and measuring that temperature, the dewpoint can be measured. Combining this with the measurement of the dry bulb temperature, the state of air can be defined. 

Eable 4.7)Draw in the Mollier diagram at the 14 °C point of the saturation curve (a) the state change line of the adiabatic humidification and (b) an auxiliary line, associated with the wet bulb temperature measurement, by means of which the state can be defined. The pressure of air is p = 1 bar. 

As an example of using a Mollier diagram in defining the state of air, we can take a typical measurement from the local exhaust hood of a paper machine. Tbe temperature of the exhaust air is 82 C and its wet bulb temperature 60 "C. In Fig. 4AQd we move from the saturation curve at the point 60 °C straight up along the constant enthalpy line ( = 460 kj/kg d.a.) until we reach the isotherm... 

A number of synthetic procedures are available (Ai2). (2) For precisely defined stoichiometries, the isobaric, two-bulb method of Herold is preferred H5, H6, H2). (2) To generate compounds suitable for organic synthesis work, graphite and alkali metal may be directly combined, and heated under inert gas (Pl, lA). (5) Electrolysis of fused melts has been reported to be effective iN2). 4) Although alkali metal -amine solutions will react with graphite, solvent molecules co-inter-calate with the alkali metal. Utilization of alkali metal-aromatic radical anion solutions suffers the same problem. 

FIGURE 5.7 Projection ofreceptor input from olfactory epithelium onto glomeruli in the main olfactory bulb in mice. The epithelium is organized into four zones defined by expression of odorant receptors. Olfactory neurons of a particular zone project to a corresponding zone in the bulb. Axons of these olfactory neurons that express the same odorant receptor (such as those shown in black) converge to a small number of glomeruli. AOB, accessory olfactory bulbs, NC, nucleus coeruleus. (From Mori etal, 1999.)... 

The quantity Tq - t y is known as the wet-bulb depression. kH is the redefined mass transfer coefficient defined by... 

The wet-bulb temperature is an important factor in the sizing, selection and design of water cooling equipment. It is defined as the temperature (°F) to which air can be cooled adiabatically to saturation by the addition of water vapor and can be expressed as the lowest temperature to which water can be cooled by the evaporative method. 

Under some wind conditions, a portion of the warm moist air leaving the tower may recirculate back through tire tower inlet and thus degrade performance. Forced-draft towers have recirculation rates that are about double those of induced-draft towers. Both water loading and tower height play the dominant role in- recirculation. Correlations exist in the literature for defining the effects of these parameters, and corrections can be applied to the wet-bulb temperature [2,3], Cooling tower fabricators can supply data to estimate the severity of the problem. 

We have defined a spontaneous process as one that proceeds on its own without any external influence (Section 8.13). The reverse of a spontaneous process is always nonspontaneous and takes place only in the presence of some continuous external influence. Consider, for example, the expansion of a gas into a vacuum. When the stopcock in the apparatus shown in Figure 17.1 is opened, the gas in bulb A expands spontaneously into the evacuated bulb B until the gas pressure in the two bulbs is the same. The reverse process, migration of all the gas molecules into one bulb, does not occur spontaneously. To compress a gas from a larger to a smaller volume, we would have to push on the gas with a piston. 

As we learned earlier, inventions can be broken down into two parts conception and reduction to practice. Conception has been defined as the complete performance of the mental part of the inventive act. 27 One might think of the conception portion of the invention as the idea to do the thing that eventually becomes the invention. Sometimes the bulb burns very brightly in an individual s head, and the conception for an invention comes about in a single, well-illuminated moment. Other times, the bulb glows only intermittently, perhaps borrowing its light from several individuals over a course of time. As a result, it is often the case that a claim to an invention... 

The most important modem system of units is the SI system, which is based around seven primary units time (second, abbreviated s), length (meter, m), temperature (Kelvin, K), mass (kilogram, kg), amount of substance (mole, mol), current (Amperes, A) and luminous intensity (candela, cd). The candela is mainly important for characterizing radiation sources such as light bulbs. Physical artifacts such as the platinum-iridium bar mentioned above no longer define most of the primary units. Instead, most of the definitions rely on fundamental physical properties, which are more readily reproduced. For example, the second is defined in terms of the frequency of microwave radiation that causes atoms of the isotope cesium-133 to absorb energy. This frequency is defined to be 9,192,631,770 cycles per second (Hertz) —in other words, an instrument which counts 9,192,631,770 cycles of this wave will have measured exactly one second. Commercially available cesium clocks use this principle, and are accurate to a few parts in 1014. 

How does the brain sense the activation of a defined subset of olfactory receptor neurons In the mouse, all neurons expressing a given OR extend axons that synapse in two glomeruli in each olfactory bulb (Ressler el al., 1994 Vassar et al., 1994 Mombaerts et al., 1996). Therefore activation of a given complement of ORs in the periphery will be represented in the olfactory bulb by the specific activation of a subset of glomeruli. This spatial map may be interpreted by higher brain centers to yield information about the nature and concentration of the odorous stimulus. 

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