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The diet treatments were level of phytate intake, either 0.2 or 2.0 g/day. Each level was consumed for 15 days, three consecutive repeats of the 5-day menu cycle. To provide 2.0 g/day of phytic acid, 36 g of wheat bran was baked into 6 muffins and two muffins were eaten each meal. Dephytinized bran was prepared by incubating the bran in water and allowing the endogenous phytase to hydrolyze the phytate, then the entire incubation mixture was freeze-dried (4) and 36 g baked into 6 muffins. Thus, the intake of all nutrients and neutral detergent fiber was the same for both phytate intakes. Five subjects consumed the whole bran muffins for 15 days followed by the dephytinized bran muffins for 15 days and the other 5 subjects in the reverse order. Brilliant blue dye was given at breakfast on the first day of each collection period to aid in demarcation of stools. Stool composites were made for days 1-5, 6-15, 16-20 and 21-30 and urine composites for days 6-15, and 21-30. Daily food composites were made, homogenized, freeze-dried and then analyzed to determine mineral nutrient intakes. 

Gelled soils under the water table which are not subject to alternate wet-dry or freeze-thaw cycles have good stability. Under these conditions, the lignosulfonates are considered permanent materials. However, they respond very quickly to wet iry and freeze iry conditions (Fig. 11.37) and should not be used under these conditions for permanent installations. 

A typical pharmaceutical formulation will serve as model, frozen aqueous solutions that are contained in loosely stoppered glass vials. They stand directly on the freeze-drier shelves. Such a model appears deceptively simple but is in fact subject to considerable complexities that bedevil the modelling of optimum processing conditions and the estimation of a realistic drying cycle time. As emphasised in earlier chapters, for the case where the product does not display eutectic behaviour, it is imperative to freeze the solution to below Tg, in order to ensure maximal freeze-concentration and minimise deleterious chemical reactions that have been shown to occur at high rates in part frozen, supersaturated mixtures.By the same token, the temperature during the removal of ice by sublimation must on no account be allowed to rise above T at... 

The testing of specimens subjected to freeze-thaw cycles does not reflect very precisely the material s actual resistance in real structure. One of the reasons is that delays between particular cycles of freezing and thawing are of great importance and the possibility of the pores partly drying out are different in a laboratory test than in natural varying conditions. Nevertheless, air entrainment is required by many standards for open air concrete structures. 

It should be noted that any analysis or evaluation of the cyclic pressure freeze drying process should involve nonsteady-state heat and mass transfer equations like those presented in Seetion 11.6.1.1 and Section 11.6.1.2. The effectiveness of cyclic pressure freeze drying and the effect of cycle period and shape on drying times have been the subject of a number of investigations [1,60,61]. Litchfield and Liapis [12]... 

There is limited, and sometimes contradictory, data in the literature available on the durability of the catalyst layer and the GDL under freeze/thaw cycling. Studies have revealed that even a free-standing hydrated catalyst layer can be subjected to cracking and peeling while cycling (six cycles) from -30 °C (Guo and Qi 2006). This damage was associated with a loss in the electrochemical surface area of the catalyst that can be avoided by drying the catalyst. 

All experiments are to be carried out in a well-ventilated fume hood. The imperative exclusion of air and moisture is ascertained by the appropriate Schlenk and glovebox techniques. Solvents are dried by distillation from sodium/benzophenone (dme) or potassium (hexane) and degassed by three pump—freeze—thaw cycles prior to use. All glass equipment is stored at 120°C overnight, assembled and subjected to at least two cycles of evacuation and refilling with argon while still hot. 

Can be purified by zone melting or by distn under vacuum at 0 , subjecting the middle fraction to several freeze-pump-thaw cycles. An impure sample containing higher nitroalkanes and traces of cyanoalkanes was purified (on the basis of its NMR spectrum) by crystn from diethyl ether at -60° (cooling in Dry-ice)(Parrett and Sun J Chem Educ 54 448 7977]. 

The surface of concrete may be subjected to cycles of wetting and drying during normal service life. This process is a durability concern as harmful ions such as chlorides or sulfates can easily penetrate with the adsorbed water and there is the potential for saturation prior to freezing. Measuring the rate of water penetration into a dry concrete surface is thus important to the quality control of concrete mixes - hopefully yielding a durable product. 

The stability of methylmercury contained in samples of fish, fish muscle and dried shellfish was investigated by storing samples in a deep-freeze and subjecting them to thermal cycling over a period of 32 months (Horvat and Byrne, 1992). Losses of up to 30% of methylmercury contents of shellfish were recorded, but in the other samples contents were stable. Aqueous samples containing methylmercury stored in polytetrafluoroethylene containers were stable for up to 20 days, and acidified solutions (nitric acid) were stable in glass containers stored in a refrigerator. Seawater samples were acidified with 2% hydrochloric acid for better stability (Leermakers et al., 1990). 

Radical Polymerization of 1,7-Dienes 1 and 2. Charged to a 300 ml polymer thick-wall glass tube were 24 g (0.148 M) monomer 1., 250 ml benzene (0.5 M) and 1.9 g (7.84 x 10"3 M, 4%) benzoyl peroxide. The polymer tube was connected to a high vacuum line, frozen in a dry ice-acetone slurry, and then evacuated. The solution was subjected to three cycles of freeze-thaw processes before the polymer tube was sealed under vacuum. The sealed tube was placed in an oil bath at 60°C for one week. The solution remained clear but became viscous. The polymer [9] was precipitated as a white powder by pouring the solution into methanol, filtered and redissolved in benzene and reprecipitated from... 

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