Demons, description

C. E. Ophardt, "Redox Demon-f strations and Descriptive Chemistry Part 2. Halogens/ /. Chem. Educ., Vol. 64,1987,807. Using an abbreviated table of reduction potentials as a predictive tool, reactions of bromine and iodine in various oxidation states are demonstrated. 

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Better understanding of the ionization process in transition metal oxides requires more precise knowledge of their cationc states. Table 3 shows the preliminary results of the deMon calculations for VO+ and MoO+ ions [35], The ground states of ionized species are given in local and nonlocal approximation, cationic excited states are given only in a local description. They are tentatively ascribed to known ionization potentials... 

Over the last decade deMon and ALLCHEM have been applied to various domains in chemistry. Here we present some selected applications. For a more detailed description of the application range of deMon please refer to the following review articles. 

Most of the poems in Les fleurs du mal make use of traditional forms, such as the sonnet, and feature conventional rhyme schemes with a standard number of syllables per line. (Syllables determine meter in French poetry.) Baudelaire s radical achievement was to make classical forms fit new subjects. Baudelaire explores the dark side of the human psyche, the moods of melancholy and despair, as well as unconventional forms of behavior, such as lesbianism and drug use. He is a poet of lust rather than love, devoting poems to the smell of his lover s hair, or to descriptions of the body of a prostitute, which he likens to a cadaver. The Parisian Scenes section of Les fleurs du mal takes Paris as its subject, but this is a city haunted by terrifying old men who remind the poet of demons and hideous crones, who mirror the inner torment of the poet s soul. Baudelaire also lamented the changes that Napoleon III and his prefect Baron Haussmann had wrought upon Paris in their effort to modernize the city, and bemoaned his sense of displacement and exile in his own home. 

The first records of goiter and cretinism date back to ancient civilizations, the Chinese and Hindu cultures and then to Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages, goitrous cretins appeared in the pictorial art, often as angels or demons. The first detailed descriptions of these subjects occurred in the Renaissance. The paintings of the madonnas in Italy so commonly showed... 

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