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Phytophthora Rot (Black Pod). Phytophthora rot is prevalent in most of the world s cacao-growing areas and causes losses comparable to those from swollen shoot. Since 1910 (U2) Bordeaux mixture has been used extensively for the control of this disease in several countries of the Western Hemisphere as well as in Africa. Yield increases due to this chemical control of the disease have been put at 200 to 300% in Costa Rica by Fowler (16). Results (UU) from a fungicidal experiment conducted by the Inter-American Cacao Center in Costa Rica showed an increase in production of approximately 50% when Bordeaux mixture was used. 

Drug and chemical dermal absorption typically involves experiments conducted using single chemicals, making the mechanisms of absorption of individual chemicals extensively studied (the subject of most chapters in this volume). Similarly, most risk assessment profiles and mathematical models are based on the behavior of single chemicals. A primary route of occupational and environmental exposure to toxic chemicals is through the skin however, such exposures are often to complex chemical mixtures. In fact, the effects of coadministered chemicals on the rate and extent of absorption of a topically applied systemic toxicant may determine whether... 

All of the studies were conducted with weanling, male albino rats of the Sprague-Dawley strain (Holtzman company). The basal diet used for these studies consisted of casein, starch, vegetable oil, vitamin and mineral mixtures, and cellulose. The Wesson Modification of the Osborne-Mendel mineral mixture was used in all studies. This mineral mixture contained no zinc, but it was adequate in the other minerals required by the rat. Most of the non-zinc-supplemented diets used in the various experiments contained approximately 7 ppm zinc. The level of mineral mixture used in the basal diets was 4%, and based on the chemical composition of the mixture, the basal diets contained approximately 0.57% calcium and 0.41% phosphorus ... 

Chemically pure reagents were used. Cadmium was added as its sulfate salt in concentrations of about 50 ppm. Lanthanides were added as nitrates. For the experiments with other metal ions so-called "black acid from a Nissan-H process was used. In this acid a large number of metal ions were present. To achieve calcium sulfate precipitation two solutions, one consisting of calcium phosphate in phosphoric acid and the other of a phosphoric acid/sulfuric acid mixture, were fed simultaneously in the 1 liter MSMPR crystallizer. The power input by the turbine stirrer was 1 kW/m. The solid content was about 10%. Each experiment was conducted for at least 8 residence times to obtain a steady state. During the experiments lic iid and solid samples were taken for analysis by ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma spectrometry, based on atomic emission) and/or INAA (Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis). The solid samples were washed with saturated gypsum solution (3x) and with acetone (3x), and subsequently dried at 30 C. The details of the continuous crystallization experiments are given in ref. [5]. 

In order to eliminate the influence of temperature on the rate of a chemical reaction, a reaction mixture of phthalic anhydride with amino acids was placed in a block of ice and then irradiated under microwave conditions. Ice was used to cool the reaction mixture because opposite to water it is transparent to microwaves (e 3.2, c" 0.0029 at 25°C for 2.45 GHz) [26]. The reaction product was formed after 3 min. of irradiation while under conventional conditions the reaction was conducted in a boiling toluene solution for 1.5 h. However, since in such a case microwaves interact directly with the reaction mixture and temperature was not monitored during the experiments, it was stated that the increase of the reaction rate is not only due to thermal effects [27]. 

Concentrated hydrochloric acid All chlorates are decomposed by this acid, and chlorine, together with varying quantities of the explosive chlorine dioxide, is evolved chlorine dioxide imparts a yellow colour to the acid. The mixture of gases is sometimes known as euchlorine . The experiment should be conducted on a very small scale, and not more than 0-1 g potassium chlorate should be used. The following two chemical reactions probably occur simultaneously ... 

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