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Permineralization (infilling of vascular spaces within the bone by authigenic minerals) is a common but not essential feature of bone fossilization. Common permineralizing minerals are calcite, apatite (francolite), pyrite, barite, clay minerals, and quartz. Permineralization will further reduce porosity of the bone, and therefore reduce the potential for later bone-water interaction. This may complicate preparation of bone samples for trace element analysis. 

A varnish is often appHed on top of the paint layers. A varnish serves two purposes as a protective coating and also for an optical effect that enriches the colors of the painting. A traditional varnish consists of a natural plant resin dissolved or fused in a Hquid for appHcation to the surface (see Resins, natural). There are two types of varnish resins hard ones, the most important of which is copal, and soft ones, notably dammar and mastic. The hard resins are fossil, and to convert these to a fluid state, they are fused in oil at high temperature. The soft resins dissolve in organic solvents, eg, turpentine. The natural resin varnishes discolor over time and also become less soluble, making removal in case of failure more difficult (see Paint and FINNISH removers). Thus the use of more stable synthetic resins, such as certain methacrylates and cycHc ketone resins, has become quite common, especially in conservation practice. 

The tiansition from a choice of multiple fossil fuels to various ranks of coal, with the subbituminous varieties a common choice, does in effect entail a fuel-dependent size aspect in furnace design. A controlling factor of furnace design is the ash content and composition of the coal. If wall deposition thereof (slagging) is not properly allowed for or controlled, the furnace may not perform as predicted. Furnace size varies with the ash content and composition of the coals used. The ash composition for various coals of industrial importance is shown in Table 3. 

When this reaction was first discovered, a considerably higher (ca 1300°C) temperature was required than that used in the 1990s. Thus, until Haber discovered the appropriate catalyst, this process was not commercially attractive. As of this writing (ca 1995), the process suffers from the requirement for significant quantities of nonrenewable fossil fuels. Although ammonia itself is commonly used as a fertilizer in the United States, elsewhere the ammonia is often converted into soHd or Hquid fertilizers, such as urea (qv), ammonium nitrate or sulfate, and various solutions (see Ammonium COMPOUNDS). 

Conventional fossil fuel-fired power plants, nuclear power faciUties, cogeneration systems, and combined-cycle faciUties all have one key feature in common some type of steam generator is employed to produce steam. Except for simple-cycle cogeneration faciUties, the steam is used to drive one or... 

Power plants based on the Rankine thermodynamic cycle have served the majority of the world s electric power generation needs in the twentieth century. The most common heat sources employed by Rankine cycle power plants are either fossil fuel-fired or nuclear steam generators. The former are the most widely used. 

The energy content of fossil fuels in commonly measured quantities is as follows. ... 

Acid rain is the popular term for a very complex environmental problem. Over the past 25 years, evidence has accumulated on changes in aquatic life and soil pH in Scandinavia, Canada, and the northeastern United States. Many believe that these changes are caused by acidic deposition traceable to pollutant acid precursors that result from the burning of fossil fuels. Acid rain is only one component of acidic deposition, a more appropriate description of this phenomenon. Acidic deposition is the combined total of wet and dry deposition, with wet acidic deposition being commonly referred to as acid rain. 

Fossil-fuel and wood-waste fired industrial and commercial fuel combustion units commonly use multiple cyclones (generally upstream of a wet scrubber, ESP, or fabric filter) which collect fine PM (< 2.5 im) with greater efficiency than a single cyclone. In some cases, collected fly ash is reinjected into the combustion unit to improve PM control efficiency (AWMA, 1992 Avallone, 1996 STAPPA/ALAPCO, 1996 EPA, 1998). 

In the summer, the COP of an air-to-air heat pump decreases as the outdoor temperature rises, reducing the cooling capacity. Normally the thermal needs of the building are met since it is common practice to size a heat pump so that it will deliver adequate cooling capacity in all but the most extreme summer conditions. The winter heating capacity of the system is then determined by this tradeoff, and if the heating capacity is inadequate, supplemental electric or fossil fuel heat is required. 

The most common subsidies for fossil fuels have been R D and production incentives that have... 

Utility operators may choose from several technologies to generate electricity, although the most common approach is via the use of high-temperature, fossil fuel boiler plants. In this case, the boiler (steam generator) itself may be of several different design types. 

Radiant power boilers are two-phase boilers. Designs typically employ only one drum for the largest installations, whereas smaller power boiler designs generally incorporate two drums. Fossil fuel-fed, radiant power boilers are probably the most common type of equipment employed for large-scale utility power generation. 

In the United States, methane is a major energy source used in many homes for cooking and heating of water and indoor air and water. It is commonly known that some power plants and industries use natural gas as a source of energy for generation of electricity and process heat and that this methane is a fossil fuel obtained from gas wells and transmitted throughout the country by gas pipelines. Most people also know that methane bubbles up from polluted swamps where sedimented plant matter is undergoing decomposition. Because of odors from swamps, and the odor due to natural gas additives, methane is incorrectly considered malodorous. 

There are a few developments on the horizon that will increase our ability to date bones and teeth reliability. Both y- and a-spectrometric methods can measure Pa/ U and °Th/U and concordance between dates calculated using the two can provide a measure of reliability. However, the discordance between the two is not very sensitive to different uptake regimes, and it is difficult to resolve, for example, bones that have undergone EU from those that have undergone LU with the analytical errors commonly encountered in measurements by y- and a-spectrometry. On the other hand, it has been shown recently that TIMS can measure both isotopic ratios with a precision usually better than 1% (Edwards et al. 1997). TIMS measurements of Pa/ U and °Th/U have yet to be routinely applied to dating fossil remains, but in the future, concordance between the two decay series will provide further evidence of the validity of a particular uptake model to a particular sample. 

Some mills will combust the biosolids for heat recovery in a specialized biosolids incinerator, or a hogged or fossil fuel power boiler. Currently, this disposal method is less common than landfilling.64... 

Resins older than 40 000 years are considered to be fossil resins. The fossilization of resins begins with polymerisation and forms ambers and copals. Most of the ambers are derived from components of diterpenoid resins with a labdanoid structure other ambers are based on polymers of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons such as cadinene, and may include triterpenoids less common ambers from phenolic resins derive from polymers of styrene. Figure 1.4 shows the skeletal structures of the components which make up the polymers occurring in fossil resins [141]. 

Copals, sometimes referred to as immature amber, originate from Africa, Asia or central American countries and derive from the Araucariaceae and Leguminosae families. Polymerised communic acid and agathic acid are found as the main compounds in these fossil resins. The extreme hardness of copal results from polymers of resin acids such as ozoic acid, an enantiomer of communic acid that can polymerize and thus enable fossilization [86]. They are still commonly used today for varnishing and protecting wood. 

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