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These procedures proposed by Dubinin and by Stoeckli arc, as yet, in the pioneer stage. Before they can be regarded as established as a means of evaluating pore size distribution, a wide-ranging study is needed, involving model micropore systems contained in a variety of chemical substances. The relationship between the structural constant B and the actual dimensions of the micropores, together with their distribution, would have to be demonstrated. The micropore volume would need to be evaluated independently from the known structure of the solid, or by the nonane pre-adsorption method, or with the aid of a range of molecular probes. 

The phase rule is a mathematical expression that describes the behavior of chemical systems in equilibrium. A chemical system is any combination of chemical substances. The substances exist as gas, liquid, or solid phases. The phase rule applies only to systems, called heterogeneous systems, in which two or more distinct phases are in equilibrium. A system cannot contain more than one gas phase, but can contain any number of liquid and solid phases. An alloy of copper and nickel, for example, contains two solid phases. The rule makes possible the simple correlation of very large quantities of physical data and limited prediction of the behavior of chemical systems. It is used particularly in alloy preparation, in chemical engineering, and in geology. 

The drying a chemical substance is not a simple process. Drying a mass of finely divided solid particles carrying 30 to 40% water, for example the rate of evaporation is constant and high as long as the surfaces exposed are wet. After the surface is dry, the water in the interstices must make its way to the surface, a process of diffusion that is slower than evaporation from a wet surface the rate will then drop. This second part of the process must be modified according to the case with which the material crumbles as it dries, exposing new surfaces. 

Distribution box Serves to distribute the flow from the septic tank evenly to the absorption field or seepage pits. It is important that each trench or pit receive an equal amount of flow. This prevents overloading of one part of the system. Dissolved solids Chemical substances either organic or inorganic that are dissolved in a waste stream and constitute the residue when a sample is evaporated to dryness. 

The thermodynamic properties of a chemical substance are dependent upon its state and, therefore, it is important to indicate conditions when writing chemical reactions. For example, in the burning of methane to form carbon dioxide and water, it is important to specify whether each reactant and product are solid, liquid, or gaseous since different changes in the thermodynamic property will occur depending upon the state of each substance. Thus, different volume and energy changes occur in the reactions... 

We now have the foundation for applying thermodynamics to chemical processes. We have defined the potential that moves mass in a chemical process and have developed the criteria for spontaneity and for equilibrium in terms of this chemical potential. We have defined fugacity and activity in terms of the chemical potential and have derived the equations for determining the effect of pressure and temperature on the fugacity and activity. Finally, we have introduced the concept of a standard state, have described the usual choices of standard states for pure substances (solids, liquids, or gases) and for components in solution, and have seen how these choices of standard states reduce the activity to pressure in gaseous systems in the limits of low pressure, to concentration (mole fraction or molality) in solutions in the limit of low concentration of solute, and to a value near unity for pure solids or pure liquids at pressures near ambient. 

The combustion of a chemical substance takes place in the gaseous phase except with metals and metalloids where combustion takes place in the solid phase. This impiies that a soiid or a liquid inflammable chemical has the ability to vapourise in order to buiid an inflammable vapour-air mixture. The two indicative parameters are the boiling point and, most important, the vapour pressure of the liquid. 

Sometimes it so happens that crystals of a new salt are formed when solutions of two simple salts are mixed and the mixed solution is evaporated. The salt thus obtained is a distinct chemical substance in the solid state as well as in solution. In aqueous solution, it does not dissociate into all the simple ions of the salts it is obtained from, but yields complex ions along with the simple ions. Such a salt is known as a complex salt. A characteristic feature of complex salts is that in these the constituents retain their separate entities both in the solid state and in solution. Potassium ferrocynide, K4Fe(CN)6, is a complex salt and is obtained on mixing the solution of a ferrous salt with an excess of potassium cyanide solution. From its composition [Fe(CN)2,4 KCN], it appears to be a mixture of ferrous cyanide and potassium cyanide in the ratio of 1 4, and is thus taken to be an ordinary double salt. This representation of the compound is, however, not satisfactory since it responds neither to tests for Fe2+ ions nor to those for CN ions but does respond to tests for K+ ions and tetravalent Fe(CN)Jj ions. The ionization reaction of the complex salt cited in the present example can be represented as ... 

Preparedness and organization for response in critical situations involving toxic chemical substances requires a limited amount of decontamination powders, solid substances or solutions to be stockpiled and to be applicable. 

Chemical Substance A substance usually associated with some description of its toxicity or exposure hazard, including solids, liquids, mists, vapors, fumes, gases, and particulate aerosols. Exposure, via inhalation, ingestion, or contacts with skin or eyes, may cause toxic effects, usually in a dose-dependent manner. 

The Nobel laureate Richard P. Feynman described, in a lecture delivered in 1959, the future of miniaturization. The published version of his lecture is called There s Plenty of Room at the Bottom and in it can be found a recipe for putting the entire Encyclopedia Britan-nica on the very small head of a very small pin. Feynman s comments set into motion an entirely new area of study and have lead to what have become known as the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and engineers have come together over the past several decades to produce with high accuracy and precision materials that have dimensions measured in nanometers (nm, 10 meters, about 1/100 000 the width of a human hair). Specifically, materials with one, two, or three dimensions of 100 nm or less (called, respectively, nanofilms, nanotubes, and nanoparticles) qualify as products of nanotechnology. It appears that almost any chemical substance that is a solid under ordinary conditions of temperature... 

In discussing gas phase separations, a few definitions will help in understanding the subject matter. Adsorbents, sometimes referred to here as sorbents, are solid chemical substances that possess micro-porous surfaces that can admit molecules to the interior surface of the structure. Zeolites in particular are solid, micro-porous, alumino-silicates with adsorption and or ion exchange capability. They affect separations by adsorbing molecules into their micro-structures. 

Preventing exposure to hazardous industrial chemicals is a primary concern at industrial sites. Most sites contain a variety of chemical substances in gaseous, liquid, or solid form. These substances can enter the unprotected body by inhalation, skin absorption, ingestion, or through a puncture wound (injection). A contaminant can cause damage at the point of contact or can act systemically, causing a toxic effect at a part of the body distant from the point of initial contact. 

LIQUID-PHASE BEHAVIOR. The liquid phase contains dissolved substances and contacts the solid phase. For our purposes, the liquid phase is used synonymously with aqueous phase , and all processes discussed in this section take place in aqueous solutions. The dissolved monomers of the solid phase are formed in equilibrium with their uncomplexed components. Such components may be uncomplexed ions (which are charged atoms or molecules) free in solution or ionic complexes in equilibrium with dissociated ions. Concentrations of the uncomplexed ions, therefore, depend upon the concentrations of all chemical substances competing for binding interactions with them. Each complex-ation reaction is defined by either a solution equilibrium constant ... 

Sodium azide is a toxic as well as an explosive substance (Patnaik, P. 1999. A Comprehensive Guide to the Hazardous Properties of Chemical Substances, 2nd e(j New York John Wdey Sons). Although inert to shock, violent decomposition can occur when heated at 275°C. Contact of solid or solution with lead and copper must be avoided. Reactions with halogens, carbon disulfide, or chromyl chloride can be explosive. Dissolution in water produces toxic vapors of hydrazoic acid. The salt is an acute poison causing headache, hypotension, hypothermia, and convulsion. 

All fine chemicals are used for making speciality chemicals, either by direct formulation or after chemical/biochemical transformation from intermediates to active substances. Specialty chemicals are solid (e.g., tablets) or liquid (e.g., solutions) mixtures of commodities or fine chemicals and exhibit specific properties. They are sold on the basis of what they can do (e.g., protect the skin against ultraviolet radiation), rather than on what they are (e.g., molecular structure 2-ethyl-hexylmethoxycinnamate). Within specialties, pharmaceuticals and other life science products use the largest amount of fine chemicals. They are described in detail in Sections 11.1-11.3. Uses of fine chemicals outside life sciences are discussed in Section 11.4. 

When Macquer refers to the earth resulting from analysis, he can hardly be intending more than that there is a solid residue that has the general properties of earth that is, it is solid, insoluble, and so on. Not every one of the earths obtained from different analyses would (in Bergmans words) have properties always similar to itself, and different from those of any other. Macquer lacked a clear concept of chemical substance. 

Melting point describing the temperature at which the solid to liquid transition takes place is one of the main characteristics of chemical substances. When heat is supplied to a crystalline species its temperature usually rises until it starts to melt. This temperature corresponding to the melting point is maintained until all the substance is liquified. During this process the long-range order of the crystalline solid is destroyed. Simultaneously anisotropy of the crystal, that is, a dependence of its optical and some other properties on the direction of, for... 

One of the most effective methods for evaluating the purity of chemical substances is that involving determination of the freezing point, with appropriate observation of the temperature of the liquid-solid equilibrium as a function of the fraction of sample frozen or melted. 

Fractional solidification and its applications to obtaining ultrapure chemical substances, has been treated in detail in Fractional Solidification by M.Zief and W.R.Wilcox eds, Edward Arnold Inc, London 1967, and Purification of Inorganic and Organic Materials by M.Zief, Marcel Dekker Inc, New York 1969. These monographs should be consulted for discussion of the basic principles of solid-liquid processes such as zone melting, progressive freezing and column crystallisation, laboratory apparatus and industrial scale equipment, and examples of applications. These include the removal of cyclohexane from benzene, and the purification of aromatic amines, dienes and naphthalene. 

In some cases, a single chemical substance can serve both as a dye and as a pigment. For example, indanthrone [81-77-6] (Pigment Blue 60) functions as a blue pigment or as a dye. As a pigment, indanthrone is a particulate, insoluble solid dispersed directly into a vehicle, whereas as a dye it is reduced to a base-soluble hydroquinone derivative and then reoxidized onto a solid substrate. 

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