Combination lines

The xy magnetizations can also be complicated. Eor n weakly coupled spins, there can be n 2" lines in the spectrum and a strongly coupled spin system can have up to (2n )/((n-l) (n+l) ) transitions. Because of small couplings, and because some lines are weak combination lines, it is rare to be able to observe all possible lines. It is important to maintain the distinction between mathematical and practical relationships for the density matrix elements. 

When applying low temperature requirements, one should consider safety valve and flare headers to be subject to "shock chilling" if they can be exposed to cold liquids released into the system. This includes flare headers from blowdown drums into which cold liquids are discharged. Where laterals of different piping material are combined, the material of the lower-temperature header is continued for the rest of the combined line, and is also extended back into the other lines for 6 m. 

The 15.1MHz MAS-CP 13C NMR spectrum of BPA-PC at room temperature [39] is shown in Fig. 43. It consists of five lines identified, from left to right in order of increasing magnetic field, as a combination line arising from the carbonyl and non-protonated aromatic carbons, two lines due to the pro-tonated aromatic carbons (the first one corresponding to the carbon ortho to... 

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Figure 17-3 Combination lining incorporating foamed borosilicate glass block reduces courses of brick required to lower temperature to acceptable level at the membrane.

Three-spin systems can be readily analyzed by inspection only in the first-order cases AX2 and AMX. The second-order AB2 spectrum can contain up to nine peaks—four from spin flips of the A proton alone, four from spin flips of the B protons alone, and one from simultaneous spin flips of both the A and the B protons. The ninth peak is called a combination line and is ordinarily forbidden and of low intensity. Although these patterns may be analyzed by inspection, recourse normally is made to computer programs. The other... 

The analysis of the second-order, two-spin (AB) system by inspection is given in Section 4-7 and is explained in Appendix 3. A few other second-order systems may be analyzed without recourse to computer methods. Analyzing a three-spin systems ranges from the trivial (AX2, AMX) to the impossible (many ABC systems). As the AX chemical-shift difference in the AX2 system decreases, degeneracies are lifted, intensities change, and a new peak can appear (Figure A4-1). In the AB2 extreme, a total of nine peaks can be observed. Four of these peaks result from spin flips of A protons, four from spin flips of B protons, and one from simultaneous spin flips of both A and B protons. The ninth peak, called a combination line, is forbidden in the first-order case (AX2) and is rarely observed even in the AB2 extreme. The combination line is seen only in the most closely coupled case at the top, as a very low intensity peak at the far right. 

Thus, the entire spectrum may be analyzed without reference to the combination line. When not all eight of the remaining peaks are distinct, as in Figures A4-1 a and A4-1 d, care must be taken to recognize which peaks overlap. Recourse to computer methods then may be necessary. 

The ABC spectrum, in which all three nuclei are closely coupled, contains up to 5 lines (four A-type, four B-type, four C-type, and three combination lines), but analysis by inspection is very difficult. Accordingly, recourse must be made to a general computer method, such as LAOCN3 or DAVINS, or to Castellano and Waugh s EXAN II program, which was designed specifically for ABC spectra and is successful in more than 90% of cases. 

The WoE approach (Chapman et al. 2002) combines lines of evidence (LoE) including the presence of a proposed stressor, the ability of the stressor to cause an effect, and the observed effect in the field to establish causation. This is a powerful approach especially for systems that are limited in spatial and temporal scales, have clearly characterized stressors, and have extensive effects datasets. 

This combination principle must of course hold in all cases, and is a deduction from the theory which can easily be put to the test of experiment. Historically, it is true, the order of these two aspects of the matter was reversed for Ritz, eight years before Bohr s theory was propounded, deduced this combination principle from collected spectroscopic material whicli had been obtained by experiment. It is by no means the case, however, that all possible combination lines do actually occur with perceptible intensity. 

Fig. 12.—Term scheme for helium there are no inter-combination lines between orthohelium and parhelium orthohelium (for not too great dispersion) has the character of a doublet system. The liS term of parhelium is situated much deeper as indicated by the arrow...

There are three more transitions which we have not yet described. For these, M changes by 1 but all three spins flip they are called combination lines. Such lines are not seen in normal spectra but, like multiple quantum transitions, they can be detected indirectly using two-dimensional spectra. We will also see in section 2.6 that these lines may be observable in strongly coupled spectra. The table gives the frequencies of these three lines ... 

The form of the X part of the ABX spectrum cannot be deduced from this simple analysis. In general it contains 6 lines, rather than the four which would be expected in the weak coupling limit. The two extra lines are combination lines which become observable when strong coupling is present. 

Fig. 3 GCxGC-ECNI-TOF-MS chromatograms of polychlorinated (a) decanes, (b) undecanes, (c) dodecanes, (d) tridecanes and (e) C10-C13 technical mixture, all with 55% (w/w) Cl content, obtained on DB-lx007-65HT column combination. Lines indicate the positions of apices within the bands [50]...

We should, finally, mention also the possibility to Indirectly detect resonance l2X. 2H experiments. A 2D experiment invariably involves two variable time periods (i)(see Fig. 7). During the initial "evolution period" the w.j-information is acquired by the nuclear spins and "stored" in the form of phase or amplitude information which is read out and recorded during the detection period together with the (02-lnformatlon. The indirect detection of the U3. -information permits the study of otherwise inaccessible properties. This feature can be utilized to indirectly observe resonance of low sensitivity nuclei (2JJ and of forbidden transitions (2 3S 35j, i. . multiple quantum transitions and combination lines. In this respect 2D spectroscopy really provides novel information. In particular zero quantum transitions, l.e. transition between energy levels of equal magnetic quantum number had never been observed before (35J(see Fig. 8). 

In a three-pulse ESEEM experiment the time T between the second and the third pulse is increased while the time x between the first and second pulse is kept constant. In contrast to the two-pulse ESEEM experiment, the three-pulse ESEEM spectra do not contain sum and difference frequencies as illustrated schematically in Fig. 2.21 for an S = Vi species with anisotropic hyperfine coupling due to a proton. Both spectra contain lines with nuclear frequencies and v expected for = /2. The combination lines at v v seen as satellites in the two-pulse spectrum do not appear in the corresponding 3-pulse spectrum. On the other hand lines can escape detection in the 3-pulse spectrum for certain values of the time x between the first and second pulse at so called blind spots. It is therefore customary to record several 3-pulse specfra with different values of x. 

The average mass flow rate ffs can be estimated from compressible flow theory if the major flow restrictions in the system are located near the end of the line. For this case, the combined line end flow restrictions can be replaced by an equivalent single flow restriction. 

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