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Most solid surfaces are marred by small cracks, and it appears clear that it is often because of the presence of such surface imperfections that observed tensile strengths fall below the theoretical ones. For sodium chloride, the theoretical tensile strength is about 200 kg/mm [136], while that calculated from the work of cohesion would be 40 kg/mm [137], and actual breaking stresses are a hundreth or a thousandth of this, depending on the surface condition and crystal size. Coating the salt crystals with a saturated solution, causing surface deposition of small crystals to occur, resulted in a much lower tensile strength but not if the solution contained some urea. 

Plenary 21 A. Alian Wang et al, e-mail address alianw levee.wustl.edu (RS). (Unable to attend IGORS, but abstract is available in proceedings.) With teclmological advances, Raman spectroscopy now has become a field tool for geologists. Mineral characterization for terrestrial field work is feasible and a Raman instrument is being designed for the next rover to Mars, scheduled for 2003. 

Theron C C, Mars J A, Churms C L, Farmer J and Pretorius R 1998 In situ, real-time RBS measurement of solid state reaction in thin films Nuol. Instrum. Methods B 139 213... 

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Fig. 3.16 The efect of introducing a weak potential into the ID lattice is to lift the degeneracy of the energy levels mar to the edge of the Brillouin zone (shown in both extended-zone and reduced-zone representation).

The density of states increases rapidly with energy but the Boltzmann factor decrease exponentially, meaning that Pcanon(T, E) is bell-shaped, with values that can vary by mar orders of magnitude as the energy changes. In the multicanonical method the simulatic... 

Without carbon, the basis for life would be impossible. While it has been thought that silicon might take the place of carbon in forming a host of similar compounds, it is now not possible to form stable compounds with very long chains of silicon atoms. The atmosphere of Mars contains 96.2% CO2. Some of the most important compounds of carbon are carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon disulfide (CS2), chloroform (CHCb), carbon tetrachloride (CCk), methane (CHr), ethylene (C2H4), acetylene (C2H2), benzene (CeHe), acetic acid (CHsCOOH), and their derivatives. 

A gaseous element, oxygen forms 21 % of the atmosphere by volume and is obtained by liquefaction and fractional distillation. The atmosphere of Mars contains about 0.15% oxygen. The element and its compounds make up 49.2%, by weight, of the earth s crust. About two thirds of the human body and nine tenths of water is oxygen. 

The gas is prepared by fractionation of liquid air because the atmosphere contains 0.94% argon. The atmosphere of Mars contains 1.6% of 40Ar and 5 p.p.m. of 36Ar. 

Krypton is present in the air to the extent of about 1 ppm. The atmosphere of Mars has been found to contain 0.3 ppm of krypton. Solid krypton is a white crystalline substance with a face-centered cubic structure which is common to all the "rare gases."... 

The acceptance of the name was premature because both Russian and American efforts now completely rule out the possibility of any isotope of Element 102 having a half-life of 10 min in the vicinity of 8.5 MeV. Early work in 1957 on the search for this element, in Russia at the Kurchatov Institute, was marred by the assignment of 8.9 +/- 0.4 MeV alpha radiation with a half-life of 2 to 40 sec, which was too indefinite to support discovery claims. 

When considering how the evolution of life could have come about, the seeding of terrestrial life by extraterrestrial bacterial spores traveling through space (panspermia) deserves mention. Much is said about the possibility of some form of life on other planets, including Mars or more distant celestial bodies. Is it possible for some remnants of bacterial life, enclosed in a protective coat of rock dust, to have traveled enormous distances, staying dormant at the extremely low temperature of space and even surviving deadly radiation The spore may be neither alive nor completely dead, and even after billions of years it could have an infinitesimal chance to reach a planet where liquid water could restart its life. Is this science fiction or a real possibility We don t know. Around the turn of the twentieth century Svante Arrhenius (Nobel Prize in chemistry 1903) developed this theory in more detail. There was much recent excitement about claimed fossil bacterial remains in a Martian meteorite recovered from Antarctica (not since... 

Addition of water to the double bond of an alkene takes place in aqueous acid Addition occurs according to Mar kovnikov s rule A carbocation is an in termediate and is captured by a mole cule of water acting as a nucleophile... 

The coupled methods, GC/MS and LC/MS, form very powerful combinations for simultaneous separation and identification of components of mixtures. Hence, these techniques have been used in such widely disparate enterprises as looking for evidence of life forms on Mars and for testing racehorses or athletes for the presence of banned drugs. 

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R. Will, "Eurfural," Chemical Economics Handbook, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif., Mar. 1994. 

R. H. Leitheiser, K. B. Bo2er, and D. D. Watson, Turan TesinsforFRP Composites, National Association of Corrosion Engineers, Annual Meeting, San Erancisco, Calif., Mar. 14—18, 1977. 

Note for Guidance on Plasma Derived Mediciaal Products," CPMP/BWP/269/95, Committee for Proprietary Mediciaal Products (CPMP), London, Mar. 13, 1996. 

C. Y. Wu and H. E. Swift, / 79th Hmerican Chemical Society Meeting, Div. of Petroleum Chemistry Symposia Preprint, Houston, Texas, Mar. 1980, p. 372. 

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