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Cody s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software by Ron Cody... 

Consequently, the advantages of the chemical-thermal cleaning technique using chlorine trifluoride are summarized as follows ... 

The cleaning of surfaces is a very important and also a very difficult and dehcate operation. There are number of diverse cleaning techniques used in various scientific and industrial cleaning problems [64]. Cleaned surfaces can be classified into two categories atomically clean surfaces and technologically clean surfaces. Surfaces of the first category are required for special scientific purposes and these can be only realized in ultrahigh vacuum. 

Although froth flotation is recognized as the best available fine coal cleaning technique, it becomes iueffective when the particle size is much smaller than 0.1 mm or when the feed contains a large amount of clay, resulting iu low coal recovery or poor selectivity. A solution to these problems is the use of modified flotation devices. 

Charging bv ion bombardment is the technique used in most mineral separations. The conductive-induction (nonionizing) plate types of separators have also been used Application.s of this device in the minerals indiisti v include its use as a final cleaning step when concentrating rutile and zircon,... 

The sensory technique used for assessing human perception of odors is called olfactometry. The basic technique is to present odorants at different concentrations to a panel of subjects and assess their response. The process favored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences is dynamic olfactometry (16). This technique involves a sample dilution method in which a flow of clean, nonodorous air is mixed with the odorant under dynamic or constant... 

To control air and contaminant movement between zones, different construction, process-related, and ventilation techniques are used. Clean and dirty areas can be separated using solid walls, curtains, or partitions (Fig. 7.109(2). Ventilation techniques used to separate zones include... 

Coupled liquid chromatography-gas chromatography is an excellent on-line method for sample enrichment and sample clean-up. Recently, many authors have reviewed in some detail the various LC-GC transfer methods that are now available (1, 43-52). For the analysis of normal phase eluents, the main transfer technique used is, without doubt, concurrent eluent evaporation employing a loop-type interface. The main disadvantage of this technique is co-evaporation of the solute with the solvent. 

These new systems are not accurately encompassed by the true definition of CVD, but will be considered here as they are an important step in the evolution of thin-fllm deposition techniques. Using these new delivery methods the stability of the precursor, and its reproducible behavior with respect to the method of delivery, is fundamentally more important than its volatility. Moreover, the clean deposition of the precursor and the subsequent low levels of impurities and defects within the final material can now be considered of greater importance than volatility when choosing or designing a precursor compound. 

Shepherd and Davies [26] have described a semiautomated version of the alkaline peroxodisulfate procedure for the determination of total dissolved organic nitrogen in seawater. These workers carried out experiments on a range of contaminated and clean seawaters using a version [27] of Koroleff s [24] alkaline peroxodisulfate oxidation technique. 

Then, the extraction and clean-up stages can be tailored to meet the requirements of the particular detector being used. We can now consider some techniques used at the final separation and detection stages and discuss criteria which enable a decision to be made about which technique is the most appropriate. So often, experts in a particular technique believe that their technique can solve all of the world s problems. It may well be able to detect the analyte in question, but is it the most suitable method of detecting that analyte in the given matrix ... 

In general, silver concentrations in surface waters of the United States decreased between 1970-74 and 1975-79, although concentrations increased in the north Atlantic, Southeast, and lower Mississippi basins (USPHS 1990). About 30 to 70% of the silver in surface waters may be ascribed to suspended particles (Smith and Carson 1977), depending on water hardness or salinity. For example, sediments added to solutions containing 2 pg Ag/L had 74.9 mg Ag/kg DW sediment after 24 h in freshwater, 14.2 mg/kg DW at 1.5% salinity and 6.9 mg/kg DW at 2.3% salinity (Sanders and Abbe 1987). Riverine transport of silver to the ocean is considerable suspended materials in the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania — that contained as much as 25 mg silver/kg — resulted in an estimated transport of 4.5 metric tons of silver to the ocean each year (USEPA 1980). The most recent measurements of silver in rivers, lakes, and estuaries using clean techniques show levels of about 0.01 pg/L for pristine, nonpolluted areas and 0.01 to 0.1 pg/L in urban and industrialized areas (Ratte 1999). 

Most measurements of silver concentrations in natural waters prior to the use of clean techniques are considered inaccurate. Until analytical capabilities that exceed the dissolved-particulate classification are developed, it will be necessary to rely on laboratory and theoretical modeling studies to fully understand chemical speciation of silver in natural waters (Andren et al. 1995). 

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