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Mineral Oil Hydraulic Fluids and Polyalphaolefin Hydraulic Fluids. Limited information about environmentally important physical and chemical properties is available for the mineral oil and water-in-oil emulsion hydraulic fluid products and components is presented in Tables 3-4, 3-5, and 3-7. Much of the available trade literature emphasizes properties desirable for the commercial end uses of the products as hydraulic fluids rather than the physical constants most useful in fate and transport analysis. Since the products are typically mixtures, the chief value of the trade literature is to identify specific chemical components, generally various petroleum hydrocarbons. Additional information on the properties of the various mineral oil formulations would make it easier to distinguish the toxicity and environmental effects and to trace the site contaminant s fate based on levels of distinguishing components. Improved information is especially needed on additives, some of which may be of more environmental and public health concern than the hydrocarbons that comprise the bulk of the mineral oil hydraulic fluids by weight. For the polyalphaolefin hydraulic fluids, basic physical and chemical properties related to assessing environmental fate and exposure risks are essentially unknown. Additional information for these types of hydraulic fluids is clearly needed. 

Three general strategies have been pursued for model order reduction lumping, sensitivity analysis, and time-scale analysis. Lumping, the most common method, groups the reactants into a smaller number of pseudo-species. The grouping may be based on some set of physical properties, or on the reactivity of the compound. Lumping is useful when only limited measurements and information are available about specific reaction kinetics and detailed chemical composition in a lumped model, most information about specific reactions and species is concealed. 

Effects of various substituents on 13C chemical shifts can be found in textbooks (2-5,11) or reviews concerned with applications of l3C NMR spectroscopy to specific classes of chemical compounds (16-24,142). Therefore, this section is limited to recent information about effects of less common substituents and to reference data for various carbo- and heterocyclic molecules. It is not the author s intention to present a comprehensive survey rather, a number of typical examples have been selected. The reader may use this section as an entry into the original papers and the references cited therein. 

Therefore, for infrared spectroscopic methods, the total petroleum hydrocarbons comprise any chemicals extracted by a solvent that are not removed by silica gel and can be detected by infrared spectroscopy at a specified wavelength. The primary advantage of the infrared-based methods is that they are simple and rapid. Detection limits (e.g., for EPA 418.1) are approximately 1 mg/L in water and 10 mg/kg in soil. However, the infrared method(s) often suffer from poor accuracy and precision, especially for heterogeneous soil samples. Also, the infrared methods give no information on the type of fuel present in the sample, and there is little, often no information about the presence or absence of toxic molecules, and no specific information about potential risk associated with the contamination. 

It is time to inquire about the methods used to identify the toxic properties of chemicals. So far a few key principles have been introduced and some information on specific substances has been discussed, but little has been said about how these principles and information have been learned. Without some appreciation of the basic methods of toxicology, and what can and cannot be accomplished with them, it will not be possible to gain a solid understanding of the strengths and, more importantly, the limitations in our knowledge of chemical risk. 

RTECS Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances 80,000 chemicals NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH Contains information about chemical substances, including threshold limit values, recommended standards in air, aquatic toxicity data, toxic effects data, regulatory information, review information, and references to specific toxicity data. The on-line version of NIOSH s Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, revised quarterly... 

NMR spectroscopy is ideally suited for characterizing the silicate and aluminosilicate species present in the media from which zeolites are formed. The nuclei observable include 29si, 27 Al, and all of the alkali metal cations. The largest amount of information has come from 29gi spectra ri-31. This nucleus has a spin of 1/2, no quadrupole moment, and a chemical shift range of about 60 ppm. As a consequence, it is possible to identify silicon atoms in specific chemical structures. 27 Al, on the other hand, is a spin 3/2 nucleus and has a sizeable quadrupole moment. This results in broad lines and limits the amount of information that can be extracted from 27Al spectra. 

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