Coalescing classification

With foams, one is dealing with a gaseous state or phase of matter in a highly dispersed condition. There is a definite relationship between the practical application of foams and colloidal chemistry. Bancroft (4) states that adopting the very flexible definition that a phase is colloidal when it is sufficiently finely divided, colloid chemistry is the chemistry of bubbles, drops, grains, filaments, and films, because in each of these cases at least one dimension of the phase is very small. This is not a truly scientific classification because a bubble has a film round it, and a film may be considered as made up of coalescing drops or grains. ... 

Calderbank (C3) has given different correlations for drops and bubbles as well as for coalescing and noncoalescing systems. However, Jackson (Jl) has pointed out that it is unlikely that an absolute classification of this type is possible in practice, where speed of coalescence is continuously varying. 

Effect of Demulsifier Mixture. In previous studies (27) Duo-meen C, which was effective in causing flocculation of the water droplets, was not very effective in breaking the interfacial film formed between the water droplets, which inhibits coalescence. (Duomeen C is a mixture of many types of surfactants the general classification is a fatty acid ester nitrogen derivative.) However, Duomeen C in combination with docusate sodium (Aerosol OT), a hydrophilic surfactant, was much more effective in causing water separation compared to the individual chemicals. This effect is shown in Figure 16 for a 6 vol% water-in-oil (Leduc crude) emulsion in which both the UVP signal (20 min after chemical addition) and the volume... 

Box (1981) classified all of the different plant species into 16 different structural types (trees, small trees, etc.) and in turn into a total of 77 plant forms (e.g., evergreen tropical rainforest trees, mediterranean dwarf shrubs, etc.). This latter classification combines form, geographical distribution, and to a certain extent function (evergreen, deciduous, ephemeral). So fundamentally there are not too many different structural types of plants, as Theophrastus noted several millennia ago. These basic forms, when coalesced into communities, certainly have an influence on land surface/atmospheric models through turbulent transfer and boundary-layer effects that are often incorporated into atmospheric exchange models. 

The right panel of Figure 2.9 shows that the rate of level v = 8 reaches zero twice. This multiple occurrence of the zero-width phenomenon has been related to the possibility to produce several times a diabatic-adiabatic coincidence as the intensity increases [69]. This is so because the adiabatic (vibrational) levels goes up faster than the diabatic ones and therefore a given adiabatic level can cross several diabatic levels as the intensity increases. It is to be noted that resonance coalescence, i.e., the existence of an (EP), requires an appropriate choice of both frequency and intensity, while a ZWR would show up at some critical intensity(ies), irrespective of the choice of the wavelength, for all resonances of Feshbach type. One must keep in mind that the classification into shape and Feshbach depends strongly on the wavelength. 

The use of the coating system requires that the nature of the coalescing agent should permit use in the domestic environment. The suitability of such a material is therefore obviously dependent on its toxicity, flash point, vapor pressure and VOC classification. 

Classification according to chemical composition, as we find it in the Methode, relied on a chemical concept of composition that was far from universal. The modem notion of chemical composition is a historical one. It was not familiar to seventeenth-century chemists, nor did it remain unchanged after its introduction around 1700. We argued in part I that at the turn of the seventeenth century, ongoing experiential investigations and changes in chemists understanding of both chemical transformations and the constitution of substances coalesced in the modem conceptual network of... 

Practical Classification of Coalescing Systems. While it has been stated repeatedly that coalescence is highly complex and that scale-up is difficult, not all liquid-liquid systems are complex. A simple way to characterize... 

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