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Dependable operation is critical. Second-stage or even third-stage cyclones may be used as backup. 

Au] Austen, J., Pride and Prejudice An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Second Edition), Donald Gray, ed. W.W. Norton Company, New York, 1993. 

Metals can play a clear but small role in such epoxidations or esterifications with a sacrificial aldehyde. First, it has long been known that the free radical aldehyde autoxidation can be initiated and therefore accelerated by metal ions. For instance, high concentrations of peracid can be obtained with dissolved Fe catalysts (5). As a rule, the presence of a metal allows autoxidation at considerably lower temperature than for the noninitiated reaction. The exact nature of the metal is not critical. Second, epoxidations by a peracid may be metal centered however, at the typical temperatures of the Mukuyiama epoxidation, the uncatalyzed reaction of peracid and olefin is usually fast enough to make the metal redundant for this second step. 

There are clearly some interesting observations reported in the above papers1217 that seem to pervade stereoselective reactions. First of all, the nature of the solvent in homogeneous stereoselective reactions is critical. Secondly, unique steric requirements for reactants on solid surfaces appear to lead to enhanced stereoselectivity. Thirdly, modifiers and promoters in both solution phase and solid phase catalysis appear to have marked effects on product selectivity. 

In light of the dubious circumstances under which witness testimony, confessions and affidavits, but also documents of all kinds attesting to the National Socialist persecution of the Jews came and continue to come about and which the present volume points out time and again, can one really assume without any critical second thoughts that all the photographs about the National Socialist persecution of the Jews which have been shown to us in recent years are genuine Or would it not be more pmdent to proceed with caution, and to subject each of these photos to critical examination ... 

Goldin You said you saw variability in the decrease of the TTX-S currents. This would make sense, because 1.1 is decreased by PKA, whereas 1.6 does not have the critical second PKA site, and as predicted from this absence it does not show a decrease with PKA. If there are variable proportions of 1 and 6, you would see variable amounts of decreased current. 

At moderate densities. Equation (3-lOb) provides a very good approximation. This approximation should be used only for densities less than (about) one half the critical density. As a rough rule, the virial equation truncated after the second term is valid for the present range... 

Figure 1 shows second virial coefficients for four pure fluids as a function of temperature. Second virial coefficients for typical fluids are negative and increasingly so as the temperature falls only at the Boyle point, when the temperature is about 2.5 times the critical, does the second virial coefficient become positive. At a given temperature below the Boyle point, the magnitude of the second virial coefficient increases with... 

The third edition of "Properties of Gases and Liquids" by Reid et al. (1977) lists useful group contribution methods for predicting critical properties. Contributions to the second... 

This paper presents solutions of two different NDT problems which could not be solved using standard ultrasonic systems and methods. The first problem eoncems the eraek detection in the root of turbine blades in a specified critical zone. The second problem concerns an ultrasonie thiekness measurement for a case when the sound velocity varies along the object surface, thus not allowing to take a predetermined eonstant velocity into account. 

In an ideal situation we would like to have a balanced combination between evaluation of the welder s performance on one hand, and a fracture mechanics basis on the other hand in tenns of "being certain that a defect with dimensions exceeding a certain critical value is not present". The second aspect could be regarded as a safety net with a balanced conservatism. 

A related phenomenon with electric dipoles is ferroelectricity where there is long-range ordermg (nonzero values of the polarization P even at zero electric field E) below a second-order transition at a kind of critical temperature. 

The integral under the heat capacity curve is an energy (or enthalpy as the case may be) and is more or less independent of the details of the model. The quasi-chemical treatment improved the heat capacity curve, making it sharper and narrower than the mean-field result, but it still remained finite at the critical point. Further improvements were made by Bethe with a second approximation, and by Kirkwood (1938). Figure A2.5.21 compares the various theoretical calculations [6]. These modifications lead to somewhat lower values of the critical temperature, which could be related to a flattening of the coexistence curve. Moreover, and perhaps more important, they show that a short-range order persists to higher temperatures, as it must because of the preference for unlike pairs the excess heat capacity shows a discontinuity, but it does not drop to zero as mean-field theories predict. Unfortunately these improvements are still analytic and in the vicinity of the critical point still yield a parabolic coexistence curve and a finite heat capacity just as the mean-field treatments do. 

There are many other examples of second-order transitions involving critical phenomena. Only a few can be mentioned here. 

Syimnetrical tricritical points are predicted for fluid mixtures of sulfur or living polymers m certain solvents. Scott (1965) in a mean-field treatment [38] of sulfiir solutions found that a second-order transition Ime (the critical... 

Scott R L 1953 Second-order transitions and critical phenomena J. Chem. Phys. 21 209-11... 

The binary polymer blend exliibits a second-order unmixing transition. Close to the critical temperature the... 

A second constraint is that the relative order of the critical energies at = 0 and fc = I is invariant to the presence or absence of the potential V(4>) [H]-Equation (A.6) shows that the free motion band structure can be folded onto the interval — Consequently, preservation of relative energy orderings at... 

Techniques have been developed within the CASSCF method to characterize the critical points on the excited-state PES. Analytic first and second derivatives mean that minima and saddle points can be located using traditional energy optimization procedures. More importantly, intersections can also be located using constrained minimization [42,43]. Of particular interest for the mechanism of a reaction is the minimum energy path (MEP), defined as the line followed by a classical particle with zero kinetic energy [44-46]. Such paths can be calculated using intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC) techniques... 

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