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The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, which uses the same definitions for dmgs and cosmetics as the Food, Dmg and Cosmetic Act, only has jurisdiction over retail products sold to the consumer for use at home. This condition exempts free samples and professional use products not sold to a consumer for personal use. 

The very low Hg concentration levels in ice core of remote glaciers require an ultra-sensitive analytical technique as well as a contamination-free sample preparation methodology. The potential of two analytical techniques for Hg determination - cold vapour inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (CV ICP-SFMS) and atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) with gold amalgamation was studied. 

In general terms, the pyroelectric coefficient of a free sample consists of three components. The first, called the real coefficient, depends on the derivative of spontaneous polarization with respect to the temperature. The second is derived from the temperature dilatation and can be calculated based on mechanical parameters. The third coefficient is related to the piezoelectric effect and results from the temperature gradient that exists along the polar axis of the ciystal. 

Fig. 114. Pyroelectric coefficients of RbsNbjOFl8 crystal (free sample). 1 - Measured coefficient 2 - Second coefficient 3 - First coefficient.

The Curtius rearrangement procedure described here is a modification of one reported by Winestock. The submitters have found this procedure to be considerably more reproducible when N,N-diisopropylethylamine is substituted for triethylamine. The procedure described for the preparation of trans-2,4-pentadienoic acid is a modification of an earlier one by Doebner. The submitters have found this method to give reproducibly higher yields, and to be more convenient, than other commonly used procedures for preparing this material. The use of dichloromethane as the extracting and crystallizing solvent greatly simplifies the isolation of polymer-free samples of the crystalline acid. 

Figure 3. SDS-PAGE and in situ pectinase activity on pectin and polygalacturonic acid-agarose overlays of culture filtrates of Aspergillus niger N-402 (upper panel) and Aspergillus FP-180 (lower panel) at 2.5, 3.5, 5.5 and 6.5 pHi (Lanes a, b, c, and d, respectively). Electrophoresis on 10% acrylamide slab gel (14 X 8 cm) in the presence of SDS was according to Laemmli (6), run at 30 mA constant current for 2 hours. Crude cell-free samples were concentrated by lyophilization, dialyzed, boiled with sample buffer by 60 sec. and applied to each well. Polyacrylamide gel and overlays were incubated overnight with 0.17 acetate buffer at room temperature.

Principles and Characteristics Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a patented microscale adsorp-tion/desorption technique developed by Pawliszyn et al. [525-531], which represents a recent development in sample preparation and sample concentration. In SPME analytes partition from a sample into a polymeric stationary phase that is thin-coated on a fused-silica rod (typically 1 cm x 100 p,m). Several configurations of SPME have been proposed including fibre, tubing, stirrer/fan, etc. SPME was introduced as a solvent-free sample preparation technique for GC. 

Solid-phase microextraction eliminates many of the drawbacks of other sample preparation techniques, such as headspace, purge and trap, LLE, SPE, or simultaneous distillation/extraction techniques, including excessive preparation time or extravagant use of high-purity organic solvents. SPME ranks amongst other solvent-free sample preparation methods, notably SBSE (Section 3.5.3) and PT (Section 4.2.2) which essentially operate at room temperature, and DHS (Section 4.2.2),... 

Whereas SPE is a sample cleanup method, SPME is essentially a solvent-free sampling method. Stir bars in hyphenated SBSE-TDS-CGC configuration for product control analysis are a powerful tool for the extraction and analysis of organic compounds in aqueous matrices. 

Asamoa and Wurziger tabulated the caffeine content of a variety of cocoa beans.22 The mean concentration (percentage in fat-free samples) in Amelonado and Amazonas beans, respectively, after 5 d of fermentation at various stages of maturity were green beans 0.06,0.19 yellow 0.09,0.18 orange 0.08, 0.23 and black 0.10, 0.22. These results confirmed significant differences between the two varieties and also the low caffeine content of Forastero-type beans. The caffeine content of 16 other samples of various... 

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The Pt-free sample [i.e. the binary Ba/y-Al203 (20/100 w/w) catalyst] was considered at first. In this case, the sample was saturated by feeding N02 at 350°C (see Figure 6.2), since it has been shown that the adsorption with N0/02 mixtures did not allow any significant storage of NO species over the Pt-free sample (Section 2 in Chapter 3). 

Fig. 3.4f shows an exclusion chromatogram on unmodified silica. The sample is an epoxy resin with an average Mr of 900. Fig. 3.4g shows the determination of pesticide residues in a sample of chicken fat, and is an example of how exclusion can be used to clean up complex samples. First, a pesticide-free sample of the fat is run as a blank, then the blank is spiked with the pesticides to determine their retention volumes. When the sample is injected, the eluent containing the pesticides is collected. The solvent is evaporated, the residue dissolved in acetonitrile and the pesticides are then separated on a reverse phase column. 

An explosion temperature has been published, but a solvent-free sample standing... 

The crude imidoester should be used as a concentrated solution in ether. A small solvent-free sample exploded violently. 

It needs to be pointed out, that the investigation of some technically important polymers like polyolefines has not been very successful so far. Owing to their inert nature they are difficult to dissolve and also difficult to ionize. Typically one needs for the ionization process some heterogeneities or double bonds in the polymer. For some insoluble substances a solvent-free sample preparation method has been developed that allows a characterization by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry [93]. 

Fig. 9. Arrhenius plots of the free hole concentration p (log p versus 1000/T) in two samples cut from a partially dislocated slice of ultra-pure germanium. The dislocation-free sample contains an acceptor with Ev + 80 meV. The shallow level net-concentration is the same in both samples.

Fig. 10. Steady state concentration of the V2H acceptor as a function of the absolute inverse temperature for two dislocation-free samples from different crystals. The dashed vertical line indicates the temperature limit above which an irreversible loss of V2H occurs. The dotted line corresponds to 1.04 x 1019 exp (- 0.71 eV/kT) cm-3.

All of the samples analyzed were standard one-inch diameter polished thin sections. Whenever feasible the samples received a final, cleansing polish with 1 pm diamond compound made from commercial graded diamonds embedded in "vaseline". Commercial diamond paste has proved unsatisfactory due to high levels of K, Na, Cl, Si, F, and Ca. Samples are then cleaned with carbon tetrachloride, rinsed in ethanol, and coated with vacuum evaporator. This sample preparation technique was developed during our studies of minor elements [16,17] and has proved to produce consistently contamination-free samples. 

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Ideally, only the 100% pure sample should be tested however, impurity-free samples are difficult to obtain and preparation of formulations (as previously discussed) is frequently essential. The toxicity of impurities or formulation components should be examined separately if the investigator feels that they may contribute significantly to the toxicity of the test substance. 

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