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Washing by successive dilution is used when the soHds are separated into a slurry, such as in filter thickeners. The soHds, thickened into a small amount of mother Hquor, are diluted into a wash Hquid and then separated again, diluted, separated, etc until clean of mother Hquor. The consumption of the wash Hquid can be reduced in countercurrent washing systems, sometimes referred to as countercurrent decantation. Cocurrent dilution washing, however, can be built into some dynamic filter-thickeners such as the Escher-Wyss filter. 

FIG. 23"37 Equipment for liquid/liquid reactions, a) Batch stirred sulfonator. (h) Raining bucket (RTL S A, London), (c) Spray tower with Loth phases dispersed. (d) Two-section packed tower with light phase dispersed, (e) Sieve tray tower with light phase dispersed, (f ) Rotating disk contactor (RDC) (Escher B V, Holland). (g) Oldshue-Rushton extractor (Mixing Equipment Co. ). 

When a tetrahedron is reflected or rotated, a structure indistinguishable from the original is obtained. Chemists call the tetrahedron a symmetric structure. Escher, in his painting Symmetry No. 20, shows a translational repeating symmetry. He flips or moves his objects, creating a pattern. 

Escher, A., O Kane, D. J., Lee, J., and Szalay, A. A. (1989). Bacterial luciferase a(3 fusion protein is fully active as a monomer and highly sensitive in vivo to elevated temperature. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86 6528-6532. 

H. Finkelstein, Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 43, 1533 (1910) J. F. Norris, R. Thomas and B. M. Brown, ibid. 43, 2940 (1910). See also J. Schmidlin and R. v. Escher, ibid. 43, 1153 (1910). The resultant dichlortetraphenyl-ethane decomposes easily, mainly with the liberation of HC1 and the formation of tetraphenylethylene with Cl substituted in the para position in one of the phenyl groups. 

A drawing by M. C. Escher that contains a repeating pattern. One two-dimensional unit cell is highlighted. 

Hofstadter, D. R., Gbdel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid. Vintage Books, New York,... 

Proudfoot AE, Buser R, Borlat F et al (1999) Amino-terminally modified RANTES analogues demonstrate differential effects on RANTES receptors. J Biol Chem 274 32478-32485 Qin AP, Zhang HE, Qin ZH (2008) Mechanisms of lysosomal proteases participating in cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal death. Neurosci Bull 24 117-123 Richter R, Bistrian R, Escher S et al (2005) Quantum proteolytic activation of chemokine CCL15 by neutrophil granulocytes modulates mononuclear cell adhesiveness. J Immunol 175 1599-1608... 

Harder, A., Escher, B.I., Schwarzenbach, R.P. (2003) Applicability and Limitation of QSAR for the Toxicity of Electrophilic Chemicals. Environmental Science and Technology, 37, 4955-4961. 

FIGURE 5.1 Pathways of bioaccessibility, biouptake, and bioavaUabUity leading to exposure. Source Modified from Escher and Hermens 2002.)... 

Escher Bl, Hermens JLM. 2002. Modes of action in ecotoxicology their role in body burdens, species sensitivity, QSARs and mixture effects. Environ Sci Technol 36 4201 217. 

A plot of 8 versus log P ct of 55 substituted phenols, combining the data from Fujita s group [381] with those of Escher et al. [382,383] is shown in Fig. 5.4. The slope-intercept parameters listed in the figure are close the the values in Eq. (5.2). 

Escher, B. I. Schwarzenbach, R. P., Partitioning of substituted phenols in liposome-water, biomembrane-water, and octanol-water systems, Environ. Sci. Tech. 30,260-270(1996). 

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