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Test bench methods for machines not too large for test cabins have been developed in order to obtain comparative results. In the case of particles, the tracer gas describes well the behavior of aerodynamic diameter particles less than 5 to 10 gm. For larger particles, correction factors should be used to modify the efficiency results obtained using the tracer gas technique. 

C02-0029. The following is a molecular picture of carbon reacting with oxygen to form carbon monoxide, a deadly poisonous gas. Describe how this picture illustrates the features of atomic theoiy. 

C05-0066. A cylinder with a movable piston contains a sample of gas. Describe in molecular terms the effect on pressure exerted by the gas for each of the following changes (a) The piston is pushed in. (b) Some gas is removed while the piston is held in place, (c) The gas is heated while the piston is held in place. 

Ammonia, whose name seems to come from that of the Egyptian god Amon, was obtained for the first time in 1612 by Kunchel by heating ammonium chloride from animal excrements with calcium hydroxide [1]. This gas, described as stifling, has been studied by Scheele and Priestley, and its formula (NH3) was established by Berthollet in 1875 [1, 2]. 

EXAMPLE 11.5. For the sample of gas described in Fig. 11-2, what pressure is required to make the volume... 

What would be the volume of the gas described in Table 11-1 at 1.5 atm pressure Answer first by calculating with Boyle s law, second by reading from Fig. 11-2, and third by reading from Fig. 11-3. Which determination is easiest (assuming that the graphs have already been drawn) ... 

Davy s research was to make him famous, not because he performed dangerous experiments, but because he discovered a new recreational drug. In 1800 he published a 580-page book titled Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration in which he discussed his discovery of, and researches on, laughing gas. Describing its effects, Davy wrote ... 

For a gas described by the Redlich/Kwong equation [Eq. (3.35)] and for a temperature greater than Tc, develop expressions for the two limiting slopes,... 

O You are given a sample of an unknown gas. Describe how you can identify the gas in the laboratory. What measurements will you take What apparatus might you need ... 

When applied to biomass feedstocks, few steam gasification systems in which oxygen and air are excluded have been described or operated as autother-mal processes since this early work. Wright-Malta Corporation s directly heated, pressurized steam gasification process for the production of medium-energy gas described earlier is one of these (Hooverman and Coffman, 1976 Coffman and Speicher, 1993). An external heat source is needed only during startup, and water is added as a cofeedstock if the biomass feedstock contains insufficient moisture (i.e., less than about 50 wt %). The process was described as follows (Coffman, 1981) ... 

The comparison between molar mass of hydrogen gas and the molar mass of oxygen gas described on the previous page also can be expressed as a percent by taking the fraction, converting it to decimal form, and multiplying by 100 as follows ... 

Owing to the nature of neural network architecture, there are limitations to the number of descriptors that can be introduced to model an activity. Although the GA from the previous analysis vastly reduced the number of X variables to produce an improved PLS model, it is still too high a number to use as inputs here. To this end, PCA was used to assess the intrinsic dimensionality of those X variables selected by the GA described under the previous header. We generated only one model, which incorporated all non-QCT descriptors and the QCT descriptors at level C as this would provide the most promising results. Eight PCs were extracted as linear combinations of descriptors that explained 90% of the variance in the GA output and used as variables for each molecule. This is illustrated in Figure 4. 

Show that by the use of the compressibility factor defined by PV = kRT it is possible to express equation (20.16) in the reduced form applicable to any gas. Describe the construction of a generalized chart for determining the (approximate) change of entropy of any gas with pressure at constant temperature. 

Scientific experiments frequently require an oxygen-free environment. Such experiments often are performed in containers flooded with argon gas. Describe the arrangement of electrons in an argon atom. Why is argon often a good choice for these experiments ... 

The process acronym, GAS, describes how. supercritical fluids are employed in the process the gas is used as an antisolvent to precipitate a solute from a liquid solution. The process is generally applicable to the recrystallization of materials if two conditions are satisfied (1) if the compound is insoluble (or only slightly soluble) in the gas, and (2) if the gas is (very) soluble in the liquid. If a liquid solution containing the compound to be recrystallized is contacted with a gas, e.g., carbon dioxide, the gas will dissolve into the solution and, when sufficient gas is absorbed by the solution, the gas will act as an antisolvent and the material will recrystallize. 

O Draw an "atom" picture of a solid, a liquid, and a gas. Describe the essential differences among them. 

Figure 12.32 represents an experimental set-up in which the left bulb is filled with chlorine gas and the right bulb is filled with nitrogen gas. Describe what happens when the stopcock is opened. Assume that the temperature of the system is held constant during the experiment. 

Under the assumptions that the intermolecular interactions in molecular crystals can be represented as the sum of the atom-atom interactions (Table 2.2 and Fig. 2.6), and that the molecules are rigid, i.e. their masses and their inertial tensors are constant, Pawley [14] carried out the first analytical formulation of the lattice dynamics. In the following, we wiU sketch the physical fundamentals of his model and describe its results in the harmonic approximation in comparison with the experimental phonon dispersion relations (Fig. 5.8). As we shall see, the model of an oriented gas describes the experimental results in detail, and furthermore, it yields both the similarities of the lattice dynamics of different molecular crystals and their differences qualitatively, even when the same parameters for the intermolecular atom-atom potentials are used for aU of the molecular crystals (Table 2.2 and Fig. 2.6). 

The modern definition of isotope refers to two or more forms of an element having different atomic masses. The original definition, by Soddy, was derived not from comparisons of atomic masses, but from studies of decay of chemically nonseparable, but clearly different, forms of the same radioactive elements. Thomson s 1907 experiment on canal rays passing through neon gas, described earlier, produced two parabolic paths, one corresponding to mass 20 and the other to mass 22. While this was the first evidence for isotopes of light, nomadioactive elements, the data were relatively crude and knowledge of atomic structure was insufficient to fully understand the result. 

The composition of the natural gas described above differs considerably in many cases in that different percentages of hydrocarbons and inert gas components are found. Up to 20 different gas qualities are fed into the tmnkline system. 

In practice, as in [15], we replace the true Airy gas described above by an Airy gas model in which Ljl = 20 with I defined below. This system has 19 occupied... 

Place a piece of moistened starch-potassixim iodide test paper in the concave dip of a watch glass. Remove the stopper of the first 20 x 150-mm test tube containing NO2, and place the watch glass snugly over the mouth of the test tube so that the starch-potassium iodide test paper is exposed to the brown NO2 gas. Describe what you observe in TABLE 38.IP. 

As many quantum effects are more pronounced in semiconductors compared to metals, attention will now be focused on the case of a semiconducting material. The changes that occur in the properties of a free electron gas change when the dimensions of the solid are reduced were described in Section 2.4. Although the model of the free electron gas does not include the nature of the solid, from a macroscopic point of view it is necessary to distinguish between metals, semiconductors, and insulators [15], Whilst the model of a free electron gas describes relatively well the case of electrons in the conduction band of metals, the electrons in an insulating material are only poorly described by the free electron model. In... 

So far talk was always of synthesis gas and it was implied - in silence -that this gas enters a reaction vessel filled with catalyst in which CO2, CO and H2 are then converted to methanol and that during this a gas mixture occurs containing methanol, residual CO2, residual CO and residual H2 approximately in equilibrium as well as all the inert gases contained in the synthesis gas. If one were to apply the coal gas described in the previous section containing by volume 3.0 % CO2, 27 % CO and 64 % H2 at a pressure of 70 bar and a temperature of 250°C in a reaction vessel filled with a methanol catalyst, the conversion of CO2 and CO would commence vehemental and be accompanied by just as vehement a temperature rise. Assumed that methanol equilibrium was reached, a gas mixture would be available at the end of the reaction at a temperature of 337°C and with a composition as follows ... 

The solubility of gases is generally described by the Ostwald coefficient L = Vs/Tw, where subscripts s and w denote the solute and the solvent (water), and Vs denotes the volume of pure gas at a given temperature and pressure sorbed by (dissolved in) a volume Vw of pure water. For the standard pressure of =0.1 MPa 1 atm (the Ostwald coefficient is not appreciably dependent on the pressure at moderate pressures) the standard state molar volume of the gas is Vs° =RT/P° + Bss, the second term is the second virial coefficient of the gas (describing interactions of the gas molecules with each other) and generally Bss RT/P° and can be ignored. The molar concentration (in Vw = 1 dm of water) of the gas is then LP°IRT (with... 

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