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The relative importance of the mass-loading and viscoelastic contributions to the observed acoustic sensor response is an issue that has yet to be resolved. Capitalizing on these effects to improve chemical selectivity and detection sensitivity requires further characterization of sensor response, in terms of both velocity and attenuation changes, in addition to more accurate models describing how coating-analyte interactions affect relevant film properties. 

K.B. Tator, How coatings protect—and why they fail, Canadian Paint Finish. 8 (1977) 30-34. 

Stafford, Samuels, and Croysdale gave a comprehensive review of ammonium nitrate plant safety. They discussed how coating ammonium nitrate affects its explosibility. For instance, 2.5 percent by weight of diato-maceous earth applied as a coating on ammonium nitrate reduces its detonation sensitivity, and 2.5 percent by weight of finely divided sulfur increases the detonation sensitivity. At a 5 percent concentration, urea decreases the thermal stability of ammonium nitrate. 

When considering how the evolution of life could have come about, the seeding of terrestrial life by extraterrestrial bacterial spores traveling through space (panspermia) deserves mention. Much is said about the possibility of some form of life on other planets, including Mars or more distant celestial bodies. Is it possible for some remnants of bacterial life, enclosed in a protective coat of rock dust, to have traveled enormous distances, staying dormant at the extremely low temperature of space and even surviving deadly radiation The spore may be neither alive nor completely dead, and even after billions of years it could have an infinitesimal chance to reach a planet where liquid water could restart its life. Is this science fiction or a real possibility We don t know. Around the turn of the twentieth century Svante Arrhenius (Nobel Prize in chemistry 1903) developed this theory in more detail. There was much recent excitement about claimed fossil bacterial remains in a Martian meteorite recovered from Antarctica (not since... 

Some 500 years ago during Columbuss second voyage to what are now the Americas he and his crew saw children playing with balls made from the latex of trees that grew there Later Joseph Priest ley called this material rubber to describe its ability to erase pencil marks by rubbing and in 1823 Charles Macintosh demonstrated how rubber could be used to make waterproof coats and shoes Shortly there after Michael Faraday determined an empirical for mula of CsHs for rubber It was eventually determined that rubber is a polymer of 2 methyl 1 3 butadiene... 

Because of the much larger volume of single products, there have been more intensive studies of the mechanical properties of mbber, plastics, and fibers in the past than of coating where the volume of individual products is generally relatively small. However, the mechanical property requirements of films for various coating appHcations and how to vary composition in order to achieve these needs is under investigation. 

Recipes and instructions for coating the rotors are available from the Harrison website (http //pw 1. netcom.com/ ithres/harrisonresearch.html). In addition, information on how to regenerate the sorbents and binders are also included. 

We will cover a simple drying model to examine the radiation drier of coated paper. We assume there are no major temperature or humidity variations in the direction of the paper web thickness, and that temperature T and humidity u are constant in the direction of thickness. This assumption requires that the capillary action be ignored, and the pressure gradient of water is zero on the assumption hu/dx = dT/dx = 0. How is it possible that the humidity distribution remains uniform ... 

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