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Attempts to accurately measure the monomers chromatographi-cally were of questionable success. Monomer concentrations were less than 57o acrylonitrile and 0.17o styrene. Chromatographic repeatability on both monomers was goo However, the two monomers were also measured by gas chromatographic and titrimetric methods. Agreement between all three methods was poor for both monomers. There was therefore no basis for evaluating quality of liquid chromatography results. 

Water-Vapor Transmission. Primary Film Test Method ASTM E96. The primary test method for the determination of water-vapor transmission through plastics less than 32 mm thick is ASTM E96. (See Fig. 4.) There are two basic methods the Desiccant Method and the Water Method. Agreement between the two methods should not be expected. The method selected should be the one which most nearly approaches the conditions of use. 

Use of Standard Analytical Methods. To compare samples between laboratories and develop standard methods, agreement about optimal extraction and analysis methods would be desirable. The diverse aims and nonstandard nature of most separations, however, combined with inevitable changes in columns and optimization of procedures, make such a goal elusive. A collaborative study to determine optimal RP-HPLC analytical conditions for wheat... 

Figure 5. Steady state and initial rotational distributions from the F HCl reaction. The steady state distributions were obtained from high resolution interferometric recording of the spectra (70). The initial distributions were obtained from the truncation method agreement with the initial distributions of (17) is good.

Polymer anlysed ROOM ( mol/kg) Method Agreement of the methods... 

The described simulation results can be verified by comparing the calculated temperature for one special place, namely the radius of the heated wire, with the surface temperature values measured by independent methods. Agreement for the given example (platinum wire 25 pm in diameter) was excellent when T was determined by means of temperature-dependent potential shift (see later below). 

Several urine samples were analyzed using the method of standard additions. Samples were filtered through a 0.2 micron filter before being injected onto the column. No other pretreatment or preconcentration was necessary. Two freeze-dried urine standards were used to validate the method. Agreement between reported total As concentration and the sum the concentrations of the individual species determined by HPLC-ICP-MS was within 2% and 13% for both standards spiked with arsenate. Table 3.3 shows the results of this comparison. 

We have presented a method to analyze the composite displacement and rotation movements. On Tables 1 and 2 we can see the agreement between the experimental values and that obtained from equations (1) or (2). This technique allows to follow the movement in real time, observing directly on the PC screen the ring size and position variations. In this way, we can determine the center and the radius of the ring. 

The preferable theoretical tools for the description of dynamical processes in systems of a few atoms are certainly quantum mechanical calculations. There is a large arsenal of powerful, well established methods for quantum mechanical computations of processes such as photoexcitation, photodissociation, inelastic scattering and reactive collisions for systems having, in the present state-of-the-art, up to three or four atoms, typically. " Both time-dependent and time-independent numerically exact algorithms are available for many of the processes, so in cases where potential surfaces of good accuracy are available, excellent quantitative agreement with experiment is generally obtained. In addition to the full quantum-mechanical methods, sophisticated semiclassical approximations have been developed that for many cases are essentially of near-quantitative accuracy and certainly at a level sufficient for the interpretation of most experiments.These methods also are com-... 

The intensities are plotted vs. v, the final vibrational quantum number of the transition. The CSP results (which for this property are almost identical with CI-CSP) are compared with experimental results for h in a low-temperature Ar matrix. The agreement is excellent. Also shown is the comparison with gas-phase, isolated I. The solvent effect on the Raman intensities is clearly very large and qualitative. These show that CSP calculations for short timescales can be extremely useful, although for later times the method breaks down, and CTCSP should be used. 

They compared the PME method with equivalent simulations based on a 9 A residue-based cutoflF and found that for PME the averaged RMS deviations of the nonhydrogen atoms from the X-ray structure were considerably smaller than in the non-PME case. Also, the atomic fluctuations calculated from the PME dynamics simulation were in close agreement with those derived from the crystallographic temperature factors. In the case of DNA, which is highly charged, the application of PME electrostatics leads to more stable dynamics trajectories with geometries closer to experimental data [30]. A theoretical and numerical comparison of various particle mesh routines has been published by Desemo and Holm [31]. 

However, the CNDO method showed systematic weaknesses that were directly attributable to the approximations outlined above, so that it was superseded by the intermediate m lect of diatomic differential overlap (INDO) method, introduced by Pople, Beveridge, and Dobosh in 1967 [13]. The approximation outlined in Eq. (50) proved to be too severe and was replaced by individual values for the possible different types of interaction between two AOs. These individual values, often designated Cgg, Ggp, Gpp and in the literature, can be adjusted to give better agreement with experiment than was possible for CNDO. However, in INDO the two-center terms remain of the same type as those given in Eqs. (51) and (52) (again, there are many variations). This approximation leads to systematic weaknesses, for instance in treating interactions between lone pairs. 

A variant on this procedure produces a first approximation to the molecular mechanics (MM) heat paiameters (Chapters 4 and 5) for C—C and C—H. Instead of atomization energies, the enthalpies of formation of propane and butane (—25.02 and —30.02 kcal mol ) are put directly into the b vector. The results (2.51 kcal mol and —3.76 kcal mol ) are not very good approximations to the heat parameters actually used (2.45 kcal mol and —4.59 kcal mol ) because of other factors to be taken up later, but the calculation illustrates the method and there is rough agreement. 

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