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Lead oxide is used in producing fine "crystal glass" and "flint glass" of a high index of refraction for achromatic lenses. The nitrate and the acetate are soluble salts. Lead salts such as lead arsenate have been used as insecticides, but their use in recent years has been practically eliminated in favor of less harmful organic compounds. 

By an assortment of thermodynamic manipulations, the quantities dn/dp and [N (d G/dp )o] can be eliminated from Eq. (10.48) and replaced by the measurable quantities a, /3, and dn/dT the coefficients of thermal expansion, isothermal compressibility, and the temperature coefficient of refractive index, respectively. With these substitutions, Eq. (10.48) becomes... 

B. MacChesney, D. W. Johnson, P.. Lemaire, L. G. Cohen, and E. M. Rabinovich, "FluorosUicate Substrate Tubes to Eliminate Leaky-Mode Losses in MCVD Single-Mode Fibers with Depressed Index Cladding," paper no. WH2 in Technica/ Digest of Optica/ Fiber Communications Conference, San Diego, Ca/if, Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1985. 

The absorption, distribution, and accumulation of lead in the human body may be represented by a three-part model (6). The first part consists of red blood cells, which move the lead to the other two parts, soft tissue and bone. The blood cells and soft tissue, represented by the liver and kidney, constitute the mobile part of the lead body burden, which can fluctuate depending on the length of exposure to the pollutant. Lead accumulation over a long period of time occurs in the bones, which store up to 95% of the total body burden. However, the lead in soft tissue represents a potentially greater toxicological hazard and is the more important component of the lead body burden. Lead measured in the urine has been found to be a good index of the amount of mobile lead in the body. The majority of lead is eliminated from the body in the urine and feces, with smaller amounts removed by sweat, hair, and nails. 

The applicant should provide justification for using the racemate. Where the interconversion of the enantiomers in vivo is more rapid than the distribution and elimination rates, then use of the racemate is justified. In cases where there is no such interconversion or it is slow, then differential pharmacological effects and fate of the enantiomers may be apparent. Use of the racemate may also be justified if any toxicity is associated with the pharmacological action and the therapeutic index is the same for both isomers. For preclinical assessment, pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic (using enantiospecific analytical methods) and appropriate toxicological studies of the individual enantiomers and the racemate will be needed. Clinical studies on human pharmacodynamics and tolerance, human pharmacokinetics and pharma-cotherapeutics will be required for the racemate and for the enantiomers as appropriate. 

Photoelectric-Colorimetric Method. Although the recording spectrophotometer is, for food work at least, a research tool, another instrument, the Hunter multipurpose reflectometer (4), is available and may prove to be applicable to industrial quality control. (The newer Hunter color and color difference meter which eliminates considerable calculation will probably be even more directly applicable. Another make of reflection meter has recently been made available commercially that uses filters similar to those developed by Hunter and can be used to obtain a similar type of data.) This instrument is not a spectrophotometer, for it does not primarily measure the variation of any property of samples with respect to wave length, but certain colorimetric indexes are calculated from separate readings with amber, blue, and green filters, designated A, B, and G, respectively. The most useful indexes in food color work obtainable with this type of instrument have been G, which gives a... 

Different terms are used when discussing the subject of designing with plastics. Many of them could be repeated in this book. To eliminate repeating the same definition the Appendix B TERMINOLOGY has been prepared. Where it is important to describe a term in the text, its definition is only used in the text. The INDEX includes the definitions in the text. 

The averaging denoted in (A 1.1) by the angular brackets with index c (connected), according to the definition of a cumulant [38] differs from the usual averaging, which is fulfilled when searching for a correlator of the same order. All the correlated moments of the quantities included in the cumulant are eliminated. For example ... 

The search for amounts to successive solution of three-point equations of the form (E - - r i2(j)w = F by the elimination method for every component of the vector w with the index account from a to a -b 1. One possible way of covering this is connected wdth the performance of the following algorithm ... 

C. The Rheodyne Model 7010 injection valve, equipped with a 20-pl loop, was switched to injection at the apex of the sample band, as observed on the refractive index detector. The complex kinetics of the production of mono-, di-, and tri-brominated glycols is shown in Figure 14. Optimization of parameters such as the flow rate of acid resulted in a 15% reduction in batch cycle time and eliminated the need for manual analysis and intervention to obtain a desired endpoint composition. 

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