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But direct doesn t mean trite. Relying on overused words and phrases to help make your point is the most common way to weaken your introduction. Compare In today s society, people don t practice good manners often enough, with Good manners... 

Organophosphates (OPs), introduced in 1944, and carbamates, introduced in 1956, remain widely used and effective insecticides although not free from resistance problems. Metabolic resistance to OPs was reported 14 years after their introduction, compared to only 7 years for DDT and 5 for the carbamates. The complex metabolic fate of the OPs, including attack by cytochrome P-450 leading either to activation or detoxification, as well as by glutathione transferases and esterases, may play a role in this delay. Carbamates are not bioactivated they are detoxified by cytochrome P-450. 

Many optical studies have employed a quasi-static cell, through which the photolytic precursor of one of the reagents and the stable molecular reagent are slowly flowed. The reaction is then initiated by laser photolysis of the precursor, and the products are detected a short time after the photolysis event. To avoid collisional relaxation of the internal degrees of freedom of the product, the products must be detected in a shorter time when compared to the time between gas-kinetic collisions, that depends inversely upon the total pressure in the cell. In some cases, for example in case of the stable NO product from the H + NO2 reaction discussed in section B2.3.3.2. the products are not removed by collisions with the walls and may have long residence times in the apparatus. Study of such reactions are better carried out with pulsed introduction of the reagents into the cell or under crossed-beam conditions. 

Semiconductors are a class of materials whose conductivity, while highly pure, varies witli temperature as exp (-Ag//cg7), where is tlie size of a forbidden energy gap. The conductivity of semiconductors can be made to vary over orders of magnitude by doping, tlie intentional introduction of appropriate impurities. The range in which tlie conductivity of Si can be made to vary is compared to tliat of typical insulators and metals in figure C2.16.1. 

The comparatively wide prevalence of micro-methods of quantitative organic analysis, applied more particularly to the estimation of the constituent elements in an organic compound, may cause the advisability of including the macro-methods in Part IV to be questioned. Quite apart, however, from the fact that the micro-methods still find no place in many laboratories, we consider that thorough practice in the macro-methods of quantitative analysis to be not only an excellent introduction to the micro-methods themselves, but also a valuable training in exact manipulation generally. 

The action of this and other anti-bumping devices e.g., minute carborundum chips) is dependent upon the fact that the transformation of a superheated liquid into the vapour will take place immediately if a vapour phase e.g., any inert gas) is introduced. The effect may be compared with that produced by the introduction of a small quantity of a solid phaM into a supercooled liquid, e.g., of ice into supercooled water. 

This compound permits the introduction (in moderate yield) of a four carbon atom chain at the site of the carbonyl group by the use of the Reformatsky reaction (compare Section VI,8) ... 

If acetoxylation were a conventional electrophilic substitution it is hard to understand why it is not more generally observed in nitration in acetic anhydride. The acetoxylating species is supposed to be very much more selective than the nitrating species, and therefore compared with the situation in (say) toluene in which the ratio of acetoxylation to nitration is small, the introduction of activating substituents into the aromatic nucleus should lead to an increase in the importance of acetoxylation relative to nitration. This is, in fact, observed in the limited range of the alkylbenzenes, although the apparently severe steric requirement of the acetoxylation species is a complicating feature. The failure to observe acetoxylation in the reactions of compounds more reactive than 2-xylene has been attributed to the incursion of another mechan-104... 

Because the position of electrophilic attack on an aromatic nng is controlled by the direct ing effects of substituents already present the preparation of disubstituted aromatic com pounds requires that careful thought be given to the order of introduction of the two groups Compare the independent preparations of m bromoacetophenone and p bromoace tophenone from benzene Both syntheses require a Friedel-Crafts acylation step and a bromination step but the major product is determined by the order m which the two steps are carried out When the meta directing acetyl group is introduced first the final product IS m bromoacetophenone... 

When designing and evaluating an analytical method, we usually make three separate considerations of experimental error. First, before beginning an analysis, errors associated with each measurement are evaluated to ensure that their cumulative effect will not limit the utility of the analysis. Errors known or believed to affect the result can then be minimized. Second, during the analysis the measurement process is monitored, ensuring that it remains under control. Finally, at the end of the analysis the quality of the measurements and the result are evaluated and compared with the original design criteria. This chapter is an introduction to the sources and evaluation of errors in analytical measurements, the effect of measurement error on the result of an analysis, and the statistical analysis of data. 

A breakthrough came in 1957 with the introduction by TVA of superphosphoric acid and of base solutions made by ammoniation of that acid (90,91). This superphosphoric acid, which at first was made by the electric-furnace process, contained 76% P2 5 compared to 54% P2 s commercial... 

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