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The shortcoming of the maximum exposure and payout time is that they say nothing about what happens after the cashflow becomes positive (i.e. the investment is recouped). Neither do they give information about the return on the investment in terms of a ratio, which is useful in comparing projects. 

The field distribution itself gives information about the location where the detector coil or coils should be placed. It can however be used as a basis for the calculation of defect signals... 

The methods that are based on the reflection of compression waves will generally not give information about the concrete which lies deeper than the most shallow large planar defect (crack or void ). 

Figure IV-10 illustrates how F may vary with film pressure in a very complicated way although the v-a plots are relatively unstructured. The results correlated more with variations in film elasticity than with its viscosity and were explained qualitatively in terms of successive film structures with varying degrees of hydrogen bonding to the water substrate and varying degrees of structural regularity. Note the sensitivity of k to frequency a detailed study of the dispersion of k should give information about the characteristic relaxation times of various film structures.

Studies of inelastic scattering are of considerable interest in heterogeneous catalysis. The degree to which molecules are scattered specularly gives information about their residence time on the surface. Often new chemical species appear, whose trajectory from the surface correlates to some degree with that of the incident beam of molecules. The study of such reactive scattering gives mechanistic information about surface reactions. 

Discuss briefly which techniques listed in Table VIII-1 give information that is averaged over, that is, is representative of a macroscopic region of surface and which ones give information characteristic of a particular microscopic region. Take the dividing line of macroscopic versus microscopic to be about 1000 atoms in size.. 

Electronic spectra of surfaces can give information about what species are present and their valence states. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and its variant, ESC A, are commonly used. Figure VIII-11 shows the application to an A1 surface and Fig. XVIII-6, to the more complicated case of Mo supported on TiOi [37] Fig. XVIII-7 shows the detection of photochemically produced Br atoms on Pt(lll) [38]. Other spectroscopies that bear on the chemical state of adsorbed species include (see Table VIII-1) photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) [39-41], angle resolved PES or ARPES [42], and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) [43-47]. Spectroscopic detection of adsorbed hydrogen is difficult, and... 

For the mechanistic studies made, this protocol is able to give information about how dynamical properties affect the evolution of a photochemical reaction, but is not accurate enough for quantitative results. The information obtained relates to aspects of the surface such as the relative steepness of regions on the lower slopes of the conical intersection, and the relative width of alternative channels. 

The bond matrix is related to the adjacency matrix but gives information also on the bond order of the connected atoms. Elements of the matrix obtain the value of 2 if there is a double bond between the atoms, c.g, between atoms 2 and 3... 

It should be noted that this test gives information about the nature of the acid component of the original ester. 

Splitting pattern which gives information about the number of protons that are within two or three bonds of the one giving the signal... 

Section 13 23 A compound s molecular formula gives information about the number of double bonds and rings it contains and is a useful complement to spec troscopic methods of structure determination... 

Ions that fragment in flight between the ion source and the ion collector are called metastable ions and can give information about connections between fragment ions. 

Special isotope ratio mass spectrometers are needed to measure the small variations, which are too small to be read off from a spectrum obtained on a routine mass spectrometer. Ratios of isotopes measured very accurately (usually as 0/00, i.e., as parts per 1000 [mil] rather than parts per 100 [percent]) give information on, for example, reaction mechanisms, dating of historic samples, or testing for drugs in metabolic systems. Such uses are illustrated in the main text. 

There is an important difference between the two techniques in that photons, produced by XRF, can pass through a relatively large thickness of a solid sample, typically 4000 nm, whereas electrons can penetrate only about 2 nm. This means that AES is more useful in the study of solid surfaces, whereas XRF gives information referring more to the bulk of a solid or liquid. 

A few techniques exist that do not provide for direct dating but rather give information as to whether the object is of modem manufacture. One of these is dating (53). In the decay series of uranium, the first long-Hved member after Ra, with its 1622 yr half-life, is which has a 22 yr... 

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Table 4 gives information on significant uses and Table 5 provides manufactuting data on various alkylamiaes for 1988, from capacity announcements ia Chemical Week, Hydrocarbon Processing, and European ChemicalNem. Table 6 gives general sales specifications and the U.S. Hst price (1991). More detaHed product Specifications are avaHable from the various iadicated manufacturers. 

General Observations. Animals are inspected at frequent intervals in order to discover any departure from normal appearance and function, the presence of abnormal patterns of behavior, and any other differences from the control animals. Simple observation of the animals may give information of considerable importance in assessing potential for toxicity and giving preliminary guidance on the nature of any injury. 

The NMR spectra of heterocyclic compounds with seven or more ring members are as diverse as the shape, size and degree of unsaturation of the compounds. NMR is perhaps the most important physical method to ascertain the structure, especially the conformational statics and dynamics, of large heterocycles. Proton-proton coupling constants provide a wealth of data on the shape of the molecules, while chemical shift data, heteroatom-proton coupling constants and heteronuclear spectra give information of the electronic structure. Details are found in Chapters 5.16-5.22. Some data on seven-membered rings are included in Table 10. 

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