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Several hundred individual hydrocarbon chemicals defined as petroleum-based have been identified. Furthermore, each individual crude oil and each individual petroleum product has a specific mixture of the various constituents because of the variation in petroleum composition (Chapter 2), and this variation is reflected in the composition of the finished petroleum product. At this point it is worthy of note that the term petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) is widely used to refer to the hydrogen- and carbon-containing compounds originating from crude oil, but petroleum hydrocarbons should be distinguished from total petroleum hydrocarbons because the term total petroleum hydrocarbons is specifically associated with environmental sampling and analytical results (Weisman, 1998 CFR, 2004). 

Some chiral compounds exhibit a different crystal structure for each pure enantiomer and their mixture the difference can be used to distinguish them. Again, the use of cascading libraries allows pure compounds to be distinguished from compounds contaminated with relatively small amounts of the other chiral forms. 

The odor sensitivity of an experimental animal needs to be known to appreciate communication distances and performance, but it is not easily measured. The detection thresholdhzs to be distinguished from the recognition threshold. The former is the concentration at which an odor is noticed, and the latter -typically much higher - the concentration at which behavior tests in animals or verbal responses in humans show that the odor has been recognized as a specific signal, compound, or mixture. 

This work has demonstrated that organically bound sulfur forms can be distinguished and in some manner quantified directly in model compound mixtures, and in petroleum and coal. The use of third derivatives of the XANES spectra was the critical factor in allowing this analysis. The tentative quantitative identifications of sulfur forms appear to be consistent with the chemical behavior of the petroleum and coal samples. XANES and XPS analyses of the same samples show the same trends in relative levels of sulfide and thiophenic forms, but with significant numerical differences. This reflects the fact that use of both XPS and XANES methods for quantitative determinations of sulfur forms are in an early development stage. Work is currently in progress to resolve issues of thickness effects for XANES spectra and to define the possible interferences from pyritic sulfur in both approaches. In addition these techniques are being extended to other nonvolatile and solid hydrocarbon materials. 

A] change of properties, and a production of new properties, may be considered as criterions, by which compound bodies, chemically combined, may be distinguished from bodies formed merely by mixture or apposition of integrant parts in which latter kind of bodies, the properties are intermediate betwixt the properties of several component parts, and no new properties are produced. 

For this water concentration, the micellar region for the bile salt mixture is large for all oleyl compounds except oleic acid. Oleic acid is distinguished from the other compounds in that it does not form a lyotropic liquid crystalline phase spontaneously in water and, similarly, is present as oil droplets in bile salt solution when its micellar solubility is exceeded. Figure 1 shows also that the micellar area of an equimolar mixture of monoolein and sodium oleate is considerably greater than that of an equimolar mixture of monoolein and oleic acid, indicating that fatty acid ionization also enhances micellar solubility when monoolein is present. The equimolar mixture of sodium oleate and oleic acid has a micellar area similar in size to that of monoolein, as does the equimolar combination of all three compounds. 

Owing to the highly explosive nature of the diazobenzene nitrate, its preparation should never be undertaken except the compound is wanted for research or some special purpose. 20 gms. of aniline are placed in a beaker, well cooled, and boiled-out nitric acid, previously diluted with half its volume of water, oarefully added till the mixture sets to a thick crystalline paste—aniline nitrate. The crystalline mass is filtered off at the pump, and washed with a little cold water. 5 gms. of the moist salt are finely powdered and placed in a small flask with enough water just to cover the substance. The flask is now well cooled in ice-water, and nitrous fumes (for preparation, see p. 513) are led in with frequent agitation until all the aniline nitrate has disappeared. At no time must the temperature of the flask rise above 10°. Should there not be sufficient water to keep all the diazobenzene nitrate formed in solution, its crystalline form will easily enable it to be distinguished from the aniline salt. When the reaction is finished the contents of the flask are poured into 3 times their volume of absolute alcohol, and ether is added to this mixture as long as crystals separate. If too much water has been added to the aniline nitrate from the beginning, a thick aqueous solution of diazobenzene nitrate separates out in place of the crystals. If this occurs, the ether-alcohol is decanted off, and the residue redissolved in absolute alcohol, and reprecipitated with ether. On no account must... 

We can distinguish compounds from mixtures because of the characteristic properties of compounds. Mixtures have properties like those of their constituents. The more of a given component present in a mixture, the more the properties of the mixture will resemble those of that component. For example, the more sugar we put into a glass of water, the sweeter is the solution that is produced. 

As well as being distinguished from inactive compounds, AhR-active compounds must be ranked for their potency in order to apply the toxic equivalency approach to environmental samples. In most environmental samples, dioxin-like compounds are found as complex mixtures, and in order to evaluate the risk of such samples,... 

Afsar et al. (1987) have developed a method to differentiate mancozeb from a mixture of maneb and zinc salts or from a mixture of maneb and zineb. Compounds are distinguished on the basis of color differences after treatment of the saturated solutions of fungicides in n-propanol-acetone mixture first with dithizone and then with monosodium dihydrogen phosphate. Stevenson (1972) presented a similar earlier method that distinguished maneb, zineb, mancozeb, and selected fungicidal mixtures by successive application of acid dithizone, sodium hydroxide, and acid dithizone to the spot. 

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