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Detergents may be produced by the chemical reaction of fats and fatty acids with polar materials such as sulfuric or phosphoric acid or ethylene oxide. Detergents emulsify oil and grease because of their abiUty to reduce the surface tension and contact angle of water as well as the interfacial tension between water and oil. Recent trends in detergents have been to lower phosphate content to prevent eutrification of lakes when detergents are disposed of in municipal waste. [Pg.135]

The nature of the bonds between an oxygen atom and two atoms of hydrogen has an enormous impact on how our planet works. Because of the highly polar covalent bond, salt dissolves in water, which enabled our ancestors to preserve meat. It also produces the hydrogen bonds that make our lakes freeze from the top down, per-... [Pg.107]

Water vapor enriched in oxygen-16 is transported by wind in the atmosphere from the sea to land. When the water vapor condenses and precipitates as rain, snow, or hail, the water becomes rich in oxygen-16. Eventually the oxygen-16 rich water is incorporated into rivers, lakes, glaciers, and polar ice, which are, therefore, also rich in oxygen-16. Thus the isotopic composition of groundwater and the water of rivers, lakes, and glaciers is not the same as in seas and oceans. [Pg.240]

The hydrosphere (the Greek prefix hydro means water) is the great mass of water that surrounds the crust of the earth. Water is one of a few substances that, at the temperatures normal on the surface of the earth (which range between about -50 and 50°C), exists in three different states liquid, gas, and solid. Liquid water makes up the oceans, seas, and lakes, flows in rivers, and underground streams. Solid water (ice) occurs in the polar masses, in glaciers, and at high altitudes, and gaseous water (moisture) is part of the atmosphere (O Toole 1995). Liquid and solid water cover over 70% of the surface of the earth. [Pg.436]

As a result of their salt character, (3-naphthol pigment lakes are faster to solvents and more resistant to migration than (3-naphthol pigments, but also less light-fast. They are only moderately fast to alkaline agents. The polar character of these pigments is responsible for their good heat stability. [Pg.316]

Initially, pigments had been found which could be rendered insoluble in organic media if they were converted into polar structures molecules containing sulfo or carboxylic acid groups form insoluble salts with alkaline earth metals or manganese ( lakes , Sec. 2.7). [Pg.344]

B. G. Lake, H. Gaudin, R. J. Price, D. G. Walters, Metabolism of [3-14C]Coumarin to Polar and Covalently Bound Products by Hepatic Microsomes from the Rat, Syrian Hamster, Gerbil and Humans , Food Chem. Toxicol. 1992, 30, 105- 115. [Pg.435]

Shallow lakes are open water bodies a few metres deep. Only considered foe temperate and tropical regions in polar and boreal regions it is difficult to separate shallow lakes from bogs and fens. [Pg.3]

Loos R, Wollgast J, Huber T, Hanke G (2007) Polar herbicides, pharmaceutical products, perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), and nonylphenol and its carboxylates and ethoxylates in surface and tap waters around Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. Anal Bioanal Chem 387 1469-1478... [Pg.68]

Water is among the most important compounds on earth. It is the main constituent of the hydrosphere, which along with the mantle, crust, and the atmosphere are the four components of our planet. It is present everywhere on earth and is essential for sustenance of life. Water also determines climate, weather pattern, and energy balance on earth. It also is one of the most abundant compounds. The mass of all water on earth is l.dxlO i kg and the total volume is about l.dxlO km, which includes 97.20% of salt water of oceans, 2.15% of fresh water in polar ice caps and glaciers, 0.009% in freshwater lakes, 0.008% in saline lakes, 0.62% as ground waters, 0.005% in soil moisture 0.0001% in stream channels and 0.001% as vapors and moisture in the atmosphere. [Pg.967]

Hydrogenation reaction in which hydrogen is added to unsaturated organic compounds in presence of a catalyst, used to turn liquid vegetable oils into solids Hydrolysis decomposition or change of a substance by its reaction with water Hydronium the H3O+ ion Hydrosphere the sum total of Earth s water including the oceans, polar ice caps, groundwater, atmospheric water, rivers, and lakes... [Pg.342]

Spacecraft images of icy moons, (a) Voyager 2 image of Triton, showing complex "cantaloupe" terrain and a polar cap of nitrogen ice smooth areas near the equator may be frozen lakes. [Pg.418]

About 97.2 percent of Earth s water is saline (salty) ocean water. Another 2.14 percent is fresh water frozen in polar ice caps and glaciers. All the remaining water, less than 1 percent of Earth s total, comprises water vapor in the atmosphere, water in the ground, and water in rivers and lakes—the fresh water we rely on in our daily lives. [Pg.553]

Solubilization and Activation. Compounds included in a host lake solubility properties of the host shell, and thus, become more soluble when trapped in polar or apolar media, depending on the nature of the host. This leads to important uses in chemical synthesis known as the phase-transfer principle. [Pg.825]

There is an increasing trend in the amount of saturates in the sequence Athabasca, Cold Lake, Lloydminster, and Medicine River. This trend is reversed for the biaromatic and especially for the polyaromatic-polar fraction. [Pg.20]


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