The Holy Grail

K. Tani and Y. Kataoka, begin their discussion with an overview about the synthesis and isolation of such species. Many of them contain Ru, Os, Rh, Ir, Pd, or Pt and complexes with these metals appear also to be the most active catalysts. Their stoichiometric reactions, as well as the progress made in catalytic hydrations, hydroal-coxylations, and hydrocarboxylations of triple bond systems, i.e. nitriles and alkynes, is reviewed. However, as in catalytic hydroaminations the holy grail", the addition of O-H bonds across non-activated C=C double bonds under mild conditions has not been achieved yet. 

Although the work of ATCC and others has done much to ensure the reproducibility and even demonstrate some traceability of microbiological reference materials the development of microbiological Certified Reference Materials (CRMs), certified for number of viable life forms is seen as important for control analyses of water and food. Somewhat of a holy grail the development of such CRMs has long been hampered by the unstable concentration and insufficient homogeneity of viable organisms in the materials. 

Pinkham, Mark Amaru. Guardians of the Holy Grail The Knights Templar, John the Baptist and the Water of Life. Adventures Unlimited, 2004. 341p. ISBN 1931882282 Includes "Alchemy the Mystery of the Black Madonna"... 

This volume can best be understood by considering the olfactory senses of animals. Everyone has witnessed the ability of a dog to use its nose with its superb olfactory sense to detect trace odors. A holy grail of detection science has been to duplicate a dog s nose electronically. Dr. Woodfin s volume tries to assess where the scientific community stands in its search for this holy grail. The authors of this volume are using this chemical sensing approach to detect explosives. Explosives, as used in this context, are defined as materials that concentrate releasable energy controllable or uncontrollable. 

Gardner, Laurence Bloodline of the Holy Grail - The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed Element 1996... 

Phillips, Graham The Marian Conspiracy The Hidden truth about the Holy Grail, the Real Father of Christ and the Tomb of the Virgin Mary , Sidgwick Jackson,... 

When a seasoned engineer thinks of design standards for tanks, piping, safety relief valves, and a host of other equipment he thinks abont the American Petroleum Institute (API). Similarly API tank inspection and repair practices are considered the holy-grail. The API roots took hold in the beginning of World War I, when the domestic oil and natural gas industry worked together to assist the war effort. 

Is this portrayal of the centrality of efficiency accurate with respect to engineers and engineering For engineering, is efficiency really a constitutive value , a primary imperative , or the holy grail The goal of this chapter is to explore these questions. 

Historically, the know-how to synthesize and handle ionic liquids has been treated somehow like a holy grail . Up to the mid-1990s, indeed, only a small number of specialized industrial and academic research groups were able to prepare and... 

Combining control over architecture with control over the stereochemistry of the propagation process remains a holy grail in the field of radical polymerization. Approaches to this end based on conventional polymerization were described in Chapter 8. The development of living polymerization processes has yet to substantially advance this cause. 

Environmental Applications Search for the Holy Grail for Diesel Exhaust Cleaning... 

The Holy Grail of catalysis has been to identify what Taylor described as the active site that is, that ensemble of atoms which is responsible for the surface reactions involved in catalytic turnover. With the advent of atomically resolving techniques such as scanning tunnelling microscopy it is now possible to identify reaction centres on planar surfaces. This gives a greater insight also into reaction kinetics and mechanisms in catalysis. In this paper two examples of such work are described, namely CO oxidation on a Rh(llO) crystal and methanol selective oxidation to formaldehyde on Cu(llO). 

This, at first glance innocuous-looking functional FHK[p] is the holy grail of density functional theory. If it were known exactly we would have solved the Schrodinger equation, not approximately, but exactly. And, since it is a universal functional completely independent of the system at hand, it applies equally well to the hydrogen atom as to gigantic molecules such as, say, DNA FHK[p] contains the functional for the kinetic energy T[p] and that for the electron-electron interaction, Eee[p], The explicit form of both these functionals lies unfortunately completely in the dark. However, from the latter we can extract at least the classical Coulomb part J[p], since that is already well known (recall Section 2.3),... 

From cuneiform texts, cylinder seals, and suppressed archives, best-selling historian laurence Gardner tells the ultimate story of the alchemical bloodline of the holy Grail, including Disclosures of the Phoenix and the Philosophers Stone... 

Starbird, Margaret. The woman with the alabaster jar - Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail. Bear Co, 1993. xxiv, 201 p. ISBN 1-87918-103-7... 

Starbird s research traces the origin and extent of the heresy of the Holy Grail, whose medieval adherents believed that Jesus was married and that his wife and child emigrated... 

Achad, Frater. Chalice of ecstasy, being a magical and Qabalistic interpretation of the drama of Parzival by a Companion of the Holy Grail. 1923 reprint, Kessinger. 112p. ISBN 0766103471... 

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