Christianity, conversions

Mr. Gregors intimate friend, the Reverend J. Trist of Veryan, mentioned the exemplary manner in which he had fulfilled all the duties of his Christian pastorate, dispensing to his neighbors both spiritual and temporal benefits, and enlivening the society of his friends by his cheerful and instructive conversation (2). 

A quite different set of dynamic high-pressure techniques are based on the use of chemical or nuclear explosions to produce transient shock waves of high peak pressure but short duration. With such methods, one can often penetrate the high-T, P regions where kinetic barriers become unimportant and a catalyst is unnecessary. However, the same kinetics that allows facile conversion of graphite to diamonds as the shock front arrives also allows the facile back-conversion as the shock wave passes. As a pioneer of shock-wave diamond synthesis remarked ruefully, We were millionaires for one microsecond [B. J. Alder and C. S. Christian. Phys. Rev. Lett. 7, 367 (1961) B. J. Alder, in W. Paul and D. M. Warschauer (eds). Solids under Pressure (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963), p. 385]. 

The cyclic substrate 32 and other disubstituted olefins such as 35a were oxidized in sc C02 to give the corresponding epoxides with reasonable rates (>95% conversion in less than 18 h) and excellent selectivities (>98%) under otherwise similar reaction conditions (Loeker and Leitner, 2000). It is important to note, however, that no addition of a metal catalyst was required in the supercritical reaction medium. Detailed control experiments revealed that the stainless steel of the reactor walls served as efficient initiator for the epoxidation under these conditions. Terminal olefins 35b,c were oxidized with somewhat reduced rates and either epoxidation or vinylic oxidation occurred as the major reaction pathway depending on the substrate (eq. 5.11). Apart from providing the first examples for efficient and highly selective oxidation with 02 in sc C02 (earlier attempts Birnbaum et al., 1999 Loeker et al., 1998 Wu et ah, 1997), this study points to the possible importance of wall effects during catalytic reactions in this medium (see also Christian et ah, 1999 Suppes et ah, 1989). 

There are two Saul s mentioned in the Bible, both evidently mythical-this earlier one who fought the Philistines, and a later one who before his conversion persecuted the Christians, after which he changed his name to Paul, and became an apostle of Christ. The two stories bear many points of resemblance one to the other, and, mystically interpreted, will be found to be the same story in a different setting. 

At certain times of the year such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, not only are we given license to eat large quantities of food, we are positively encouraged to do so. Conversely, at other times, members of certain religions are expected to be abstemious, even to the point of completely fasting for certain periods (e.g., Lent for Christians, Ramadan for Muslims, Day of Atonement for Jews). 

She also converted to Christianity, and was baptized under the distinctive wedge-shaped steeple of Breslau s Barbarakirche, a few steps from the house where Fritz Haber had lived during his school years. Like Fritz, Clara was a crosser of boundaries. Her parents put up little resistance to her conversion. The family rarely, if ever, ventured into the synagogue, and Clara s father was considered a free-thinking humanist. 

The Christian movement became allied with the Roman Empire after the conversion of Constantine (fourth century). Rome not only became Christian, but Christianity became Roman, organizing itself into a centralized hierarchy with a supreme ruler (the Pope), control over the content and meaning of rituals, and a complex legal system dictating what its citizens must believe. Wherever the... 

A. T. Haj-Hussein, G. D. Christian, and J. Rilii ka, Determination of Cyanide by Atomic Absorption Using a Flow Injection Conversion Method. Anal. Chem., 58 (1986) 38. 

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