Counterbalancing

The function of viscosity additives is to improve the viscosity index so as to obtain multigrade oils. The problem is to use materials that, by only slightly increasing the low temperature viscosity, are capable of counterbalancing the decrease in viscosity when the temperature increases. 

The same situation is observed in the series of alkyl-substituted derivatives. Electron-donating alkyl substituents induce an activating effect on the basicity and the nucleophilicity of the nitrogen lone pair that can be counterbalanced by a deactivating and decelerating effect resulting from the steric interaction of ortho substituents. This aspect of the reactivity of thiazole derivatives has been well investigated (198, 215, 446, 452-456) and is discussed in Chapter HI. 

As noted above, this force is counterbalanced by an entropy-based, elastic force which prevents the molecule from uncoiling. Entropy elasticity was discussed in Sec. 3.4, where the elastic (subscript el) force between crosslinks is given by Eq. (3.19) to be... 

ANPs play an important role in the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis by counterbalancing the renin—angiotensin (RAS) system. ANP, the main circulating form of the natriuretic peptides, effectively relaxes vascular smooth muscle, promotes the excretion of sodium and water, and in the CNS inhibits vasopressin release and antagonizes AT-II induced thirst. 

An estimate of the enthalpy change which conesponds to the activation energy of the collision theory analysis of 167kJmoP may be made by assuming that the formation of tire dimer from two molecules of the monomer is energetically equivalent to tire dipole-dipole and dispersion interactions of two HI molecules. These exothermic sources of interaction are counterbalanced... 

However, the fertilizing effect of nitrates (and sulfates) may be counterbalanced by the leaching of potassium, magnesium, calcium, and other nutrients from forest soils. There is little evidence that agricultural crops are being injured by exposures to nitrates in precipitation. The amount of nitrates in rainwater is almost always... 

The fluoraza reagents consist of two types of compounds one in which a fluorine atom is bound to the nitrogen atom of an amide or, more often, a sulfonamide and one in which a fluorine atom is bound to the nitrogen atom of a tertiary amine such as pyridine, quinuclidine, or triethylenediamine 1,4-diaza-bicyclo[2 2.2]octane. The positive charge on the nitrogen is counterbalanced by a non-nucleophilic anion such as triflate or tetrafluoroborate. 

The signal from H-4 in the parent compounds underwent a greater downfield shift than that from H-2 when the solvent polarity was increased (CDCI3 MeaCO DMSO). This was ascribed to the counterbalancing effect of preferential solvation at the N-1 position. 

Formation of a quinonoid carboline-type anhydro-base requires loss of resonance stabilization of the indole moiety. In the carboline anhydro-bases this is counterbalanced by the preservation of a 677 system in the hetero ring. No such balancing factor is present in the case of 3,4-dihydro-j3-carboline derivatives. Formation of the exocyclic anhydro-base in the latter case preserves benzenoid resonance. It is noteworthy that in the two cases where formation of a carboUne-type anhydro-base was reported in dihydro derivatives additional aromatic conjugation is present. 

Fig. 20.2 Helmholz double layer (H.D.L.) consisting of a plate of excess negative charges on the surface of the metal and a counterbalancing plate of excess positive charges (cations) in solution, the double layer as a whole being electrically neutral. The double layer can be regarded as equivalent to a capacitor in which the plates are separated by a distance ...

The conclusions are evidently relevant to the amount of entropy lost by ions in methanol solution—see Table 29. If, however, the expression (170) is used for an atomic ion, we know that it is applicable only for values of R that are large compared with the ionic radius—that is to say, it will give quantitative results only when applied to the solvent dipoles in the outer parts of the co-sphere. The extent to which it applies also to the dipoles in the inner parts of the co-sphere must depend on the degree to which the behavior of these molecules simulates that of the more distant molecules. This can be determined only by experiment. In Table 29 we have seen that for the ion pair (K+ + Br ) and for the ion pair (K+ + Cl-) in methanol the unitary part of ASa amounts to a loss of 26.8 e.u. and 30.5 e.u., respectively, in contrast to the values for the same ions in aqueous solution, where the loss of entropy in the outer parts of the co-sphere is more than counterbalanced by a gain in entropy that has been attributed to the disorder produced by the ionic field. 

Let us start with a model situation there is a single bubble in the liquid, the gas is insoluble, and there is no flow. Internal pressure Pint in the equilibrium bubble is in this case counterbalanced by external pressure Pext and surface Laplace pressure PL = 2a/r (a is surface tension) ... 

Attenuation of the analytical lines could be counterbalanced by increased line intensity at the sample. For a sample of greater than critical thickness, high intensity in an analytical line is favored by... 

In this method, the free-falling velocity of particles of selected size, in still air, is counterbalanced by an upward, uniform flow of air or gas at the same (free-falling) velocity. Particles... 

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