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Notes. (1) The usefulness of the HHSNNA indicator for the titration of calcium depends upon the fact that the pH of the solution is sufficiently high to ensure the quantitative precipitation of the magnesium as hydroxide and that calcium forms a more stable complex with EDTA than does magnesium. The EDTA does not react with magnesium [present as Mg(OH)2] until all the free calcium and the calcium-indicator complex have been complexed by the EDTA. If the indicator is added before the potassium hydroxide, a satisfactory end-point is not obtained because magnesium salts form a lake with the indicator as the pH increases and the magnesium indicator-lake is co-precipitated with the magnesium hydroxide. 

For fast access to the two-electron integrals, a fonr-dimensional array migh t be straigh t for ward. Th e four in times of the four diinen -sional array correspond to the four basis function indices, p, v, X, an d a. respectively. However, the four dimen sional array m ay lake a huge mam memtiry or computer disk space even for a mediiim-si/e molecule. Therefore, this may not be practical. 

IlyperChem uses 16 bytes (two double-precision words) of storage for each electron repulsion integral. The first 8 bytes save thecom-pressed four indices and the second S bytes store the value of the integral. Each index lakes 16 bits. Thus the maximum number of basis fiinctions is 65,535. This should satisfy all users of IlyperChem for the foreseeable future. 

Fig. 3. (a) General locations of hydrothemial power plants in the continental United States (6). Power is produced directiy from hydrothermal steam indicated by the steam plume at The Geysers in northern California. At all other locations, hot water resources are utilized for power production. In 1993, a hydrothermal power plant also came on line on the island of Hawaii, (b) Location of The Geysers steam-dominated hydrothermal field (D) in Lake and Sonoma counties, within the boundaries of the Cleadake—Geysers thermal anomaly (B). 

Toxicity to fish is included in the data Hsted in Table 4. Marine life, particularly fish, may suffer damage from spills in lakes and streams. The chlorobenzenes, because they are denser than water, tend to sink to the bottom and may persist in the area for a long time. However, some data indicate that dissolved 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene can be biodegraded by microorganisms from wastewater treatment plants and also has a tendency to slowly dissipate from water by volatilization (34). 

Sensitive Receptor Indicator a measurable physical, chemical, biological, or social (e.g., odor) characteristic of a sensitive receptor. For example, for the sensitive receptor. Crater Lake, water clarity is a sensitive receptor indicator. 

We note dial highly correlated calculations performed on isolated slilbene indicate that the first excited stale strongly optically coupled lo die ground stale is mil (he lowest in energy, in contrast to the INDO/SCI results [44 however, emission lakes place from the strongly coupled excited stale when relaxation effects are considered thus, the exact ordering of the lowest two excited stales in slilbene does not modify the main conclusions of our study. 

Fig. 14-4 Schematic representation of the transport of P through the terrestrial system. The dominant processes indicated are (1) mechanical and chemical weathering of rocks, (2) incorporation of P into terrestrial biomass and its return to the soil system through decomposition, (3) exchange reactions between soil interstitial waters and soil particles, (4) cycling in freshwater lakes, and (5) transport through the estuaries to the oceans of both particulate and dissolved P.

However, some of our deer individuals from the arid Joshua Tree National Park in California indicate unusual D-enrichment. This may derive from evapotranspiration in local plants that were part of the diet of the deer and/or in the body fluids of the animals themselves, as is expected in extremely diy environments (Cormie et al., 1994c Bowen et al., 2005). Deer occupy an ecological niche that is relatively simple from the perspective of hydrogen, as their diet consists of leafy vegetation and their water is obtained from surface waters (lakes and streams) that in many cases have D values closely representing mean annual precipitation. In contrast, omnivorous and carnivorous animals consume more diverse diets with more widely varying... 

An early indication of the tendency for certain PCB congeners to be biomagnihed came from stndies on the Great Lakes of North America. The concentration of total PCBs in the food chain was fonnd to be as follows ... 

Nodularia spwnigena has also been shown to produce a peptide with hepato-toxic activity. The more recent reports come from Australia (76), the German Democratic Republic (77), Denmark (78), Sweden (79), and Finland (80,81). Recently structure information on Nodularia toxin has been presented by Rinehart (97) for waterbloom material collected in Lake Forsythe, New Zealand, in 1984 by Eriksson et al. (81) from waterbloom material collected in the Baltic Sea in 1986, and Runnegar et al. (82) for a field isolate from the Peel Inlet, Perth, Australia. Structure work by Rinehart, Eriksson, and Runnegar all indicate that the peptide is smaller than the heptapeptide toxins. Rinehart s work (97) indicates the toxin is a pentapeptide with a similar structure to the heptapeptides and containing fi-methylaspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, dehydrobutyrine, and ADDA (MW 824). 

A maximum trichloroethylene level of 9.9 ppb was found in sediment from Liverpool Bay, England (Pearson and McConnell 1975). Sediment levels from nondetectable to 0.2 ppb (wet weight) trichloroethylene were found in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans (Ferrario et al. 1985). An analysis of the EPA STORET Data Base (1980-1982) found that trichloroethylene had been positively detected in sediment samples taken at 6% of 338 observation stations, with median levels of <5 pg/kg (dry weight) (<5 ppb) (Staples et al. 1985). The observation stations included both "ambient" and "pipe" sites. Ambient sites include streams, lakes, and ponds and are intended to be indicative of general U.S. waterway conditions. Pipe sites refer to municipal or industrial influents or effluents. 

Because of the role these algae play in the oceans biological productivity and their impacts on climate due to the removal of carbon dioxide, satellite sensors have been employed to measure the chlorophyll a contents in oceans, lakes, and seas to indicate the distribution and abundance of biomass production in these water bodies. Detection is set at the specific reflectance and absorption wavelengths of the light from the upper layer of the ocean where photosynthesis occurs. 

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