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O, a large current is detected, which decays steadily with time. The change in potential from will initiate the very rapid reduction of all the oxidized species at the electrode surface and consequently of all the electroactive species diffrising to the surface. It is effectively an instruction to the electrode to instantaneously change the concentration of O at its surface from the bulk value to zero. The chemical change will lead to concentration gradients, which will decrease with time, ultimately to zero, as the diffrision-layer thickness increases. At time t = 0, on the other hand, dc-Jdx) r. will tend to infinity. The linearity of a plot of i versus r... 

Surface evaporation can be a limiting factor in the manufacture of many types of products. In the drying of paper, chrome leather, certain types of synthetic rubbers and similar materials, the sheets possess a finely fibrous structure which distributes the moisture through them by capillary action, thus securing very rapid diffusion of moisture from one point of the sheet to another. This means that it is almost impossible to remove moisture from the surface of the sheet without having it immediately replaced by capillary diffusion from the interior. The drying of sheetlike materials is essentially a process of surface evaporation. Note that with porous materials, evaporation may occur within the solid. In a porous material that is characterized by pores of diverse sizes, the movement of water may be controlled by capillarity, and not by concentration gradients. 

Consider the bimolecular reaction of A and B. The concentration of B is depleted near the still-unreacted A by virtue of the very rapid reaction. This creates a concentration gradient. We shall assume that the reaction occurs at a critical distance tab- At distances r tab. [B] = 0. Beyond this distance, at r > rAB, [B] = [B]°, the bulk concentration of B at r = °°. We shall examine a simplified, two-dimensional derivation the solution in three dimensions must incorporate the mutual diffusion of A and B, requiring vector calculus, and is not presented here. 

Finally, it is worth emphasizing once again that the C8 reverse phase, with a 3 p particle size, packed in a column 3 cm long and 4.6 mm in diameter is an excellent scouting column. A column of this size can be made to provide very rapid separations and subsequently can be quickly reconditioned to another mobile phase. By using such a column, and employing a gradient from pure water to pure acetonitrile to develop the separation, the complexity of the sample will often be revealed, and from the results an improved phase system can be educed. 

PMS stars with M < 0.35 M0 have a simple structure - they are fully convective balls of gas all the way to the ZAMS. As the star contracts along its Hayashi track the core heats up, but the temperature gradient stays very close to adiabatic except in the surface layers. Li begins to burn in p, a reactions when the core temperature, Tc reaches c 3x 106 K and, because the reaction is so temperature sensitive (oc Tc16-19 at typical PMS densities) and convective mixing so very rapid, all the Li is burned in a small fraction of the Kelvin-Helmholtz timescale (see Fig. 1). 

Similar considerations apply to very rapid gradient separations. We have shown above that a 1-min gradient with a 2 cm 2- j,m column can... 

There is a conceptual model of hydrated ions that includes the primary hydration shell as discussed above, secondary hydration sphere consists of water molecules that are hydrogen bonded to those in the primary shell and experience some electrostatic attraction from the central ion. This secondary shell merges with the bulk liquid water. A diagram of the model is shown in Figure 2.3. X-ray diffraction measurements and NMR spectroscopy have revealed only two different environments for water molecules in solution of ions. These are associated with the primary hydration shell and water molecules in the bulk solution. Both methods are subject to deficiencies, because of the generally very rapid exchange of water molecules between various positions around ions and in the bulk liquid. Evidence from studies of the electrical conductivities of ions shows that when ions move under the influence of an electrical gradient they tow with them as many as 40 water molecules, in dilute solutions. 

We use several related modes for the DGC separation (Figure 1). The first, analytical DGC, is used primarily to obtain only a density "fingerprint of a coal it has the advantage of being a very rapid analysis (3-5 hours). Only small gradients are used ( 45 ml) and small amounts of coal (1-10 mg) are applied. We use this type of DGC to preview coals or treated coals before doing larger scale... 

For the experiments with increased water content or suppressed water removal, a 5 cm-long piece of coated monolith was mounted in a 500-mL autoclave. All liquid concentrations, operation conditions and catalyst hold-up were the same as in the pilot-scale plant. To maintain a gradient-less operation, a turbine-type stirrer recirculated the liquid very rapidly through the monolith channels. During the experiments, liquid samples were taken from the reactor and analyzed as described above. 

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