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As has already been outlined in the introduction, one of the main points to consider is whether there will be no interaction or interaction in the form of either synergism or antagonism. These three basic principles of combined actions of chemical mixtures are purely theoretical and one often has to deal with two or all three concepts at the same time, especially when mixtures consist of more than two compounds and when the toxicity targets are more complex. 

Interactions between chemicals may be of a physico-chemical and/or biological nature. Examples of physico-chemical interactions are the reaction of nitrite with aUcylamines to produce carcinogenic nitrosamines, and the binding of toxic chemicals to active charcoal resulting in a decreased absorption from the gastrointestinal tract. It is held that physico-chemical interactions will normally only occur at high doses and therefore are of lesser importance for low-dose scenarios. Physico-chemical interactions will therefore not be considered in any detail in this book. 

According to Placket and Hewlett, there are two types of combined action without interaction (Table 10.1) simple similar action (dose addition, Loewe additivity) and simple dissimilar action. This latter type contains two concepts effect or response additivity and Bliss independence. The independence criterion seems not to be widely used in toxicology (Groten et al. 2001). 

The response to a mixture of compounds depends not only on the dose, but also on the correlation of tolerances between the effects of the chemicals in the mixture, which can vary between —1 and - -1 (Bliss 1937). There is a complete negative correlation (r=—1) between the effects of two chemicals if the individuals that are most susceptible to one toxicant are least susceptible to the other, while a complete positive correlation (r=+l) exists if the individuals most susceptible to one toxicant are also most susceptible to the other. 

1 Simple Similar Action (Dose Addition, Loewe Additivity) 

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Langmuir adsorption isotherm A theoretical equation, derived from the kinetic theory of gases, which relates the amount of gas adsorbed at a plane solid surface to the pressure of gas in equilibrium with the surface. In the derivation it is assumed that the adsorption is restricted to a monolayer at the surface, which is considered to be energetically uniform. It is also assumed that there is no interaction between the adsorbed species. The equation shows that at a gas pressure, p, the fraction, 0, of the surface covered by the adsorbate is given by ... 

Here (p, cp2Q and (p2 are the waveflmctions of tire non-excited and excited molecules if tliere is no interaction between tliem. In tire case we consider tire molecules do interact and as a result the dimer exlribits properties different from Arose of tire monomers it comprises. In particular, tire energy level of tire excited state is different from tire monomer—it is split into two states ... 

In such tables, typical chemical shifts are assigned to standard structure fragments (e.g., protons in a benzene ring). Substituents in these blocks (e.g., substituents in ortho, meta, or para positions) are assumed to make independent additive contributions to the chemical shift. These additive contributions are listed in a second series of tables. Once the tables are defined, the method is easy to implement, does not require databases, and is extremely fast. Predictions for a molecule with 50 atoms can be made in less than a second. On the other hand, it requires that the parent structure and the substituents are tabulated, and it considers no interaction... 

In an ideal gas there are no interactions between the particles and so the potential ener function, 1 ), equals zero. exp(- f (r )/fcBT) is therefore equal to 1 for every gas partic in the system. The integral of 1 over the coordinates of each atom is equal to the volume, ai so for N ideal gas particles the configurational integral is given by (V = volume). T1 leads to the following result for the canonical partition function of an ideal gas ... 

The zeros in the 1.3 and 3,1 positions coirespond physically to the assumption that there is no interaction between rt electrons of atoms that are not neighbors, a standard assum rtion of Htickel theory,... 

Most of the modeling methods discussed in this text model gas-phase molecular behavior, in which it is reasonable to assume that there is no interaction with other molecules. However, most laboratory chemistry is done in solution where the interaction between the species of interest and the solvent is not negligible. 

Arestraint (not to be confused with a Model Builder constraint) is a user-specified one-atom tether, two-atom stretch, three-atom bend, or four-atom torsional interaction to add to the list of molecular mechanics interactions computed for a molecule. These added interactions are treated no differently from any other stretch, bend, or torsion, except that they employ a quadratic functional form. They replace no interaction, only add to the computed interactions. 

Beer s law can be extended to samples containing several absorbing components provided that there are no interactions between the components. Individual absorbances, A , are additive. For a two-component mixture of X and Y, the total absorbance, Atot, is... 

The example of B5H9 serves to show how the chemical shift may be used as an aid to determining the stmcture of a molecule and, in particular, in deciding between alternative stmctures. There are many examples in the literature of this kind of application which is reminiscent of the way in which the chemical shift in NMR spectroscopy may be employed. However there is one important difference in using the two kinds of chemical shift. In XPS there are no interactions affecting closely spaced lines in the spectmm, however close they may be. Figure 8.15 illustrates this for the C lx lines of thiophene. In NMR spectroscopy the spectmm becomes more complex, due to spin-spin interactions, when chemical shifts are similar. 

The crack shape is defined by the function -ip. This function is assumed to be fixed. It is noteworthy that the problems of choice of the so-called extreme crack shapes were considered in (Khludnev, 1994 Khludnev, Sokolowski, 1997). We also address this problem in Sections 2.4 and 4.9. The solution regularity for biharmonic variational inequalities was analysed in (Frehse, 1973 Caffarelli et ah, 1979 Schild, 1984). The last paper also contains the results on the solution smoothness in the case of thin obstacles. As for general solution properties for the equilibrium problem of the plates having cracks, one may refer to (Morozov, 1984). Referring to this book, the boundary conditions imposed on crack faces have the equality type. In this case there is no interaction between the crack faces. 

There is assumed to be no interaction between the superfluid and normal components, thus the superfluid component can diffuse very rapidly to a heat source where it absorbs energy by reverting to the normal state. It thereby produces the very high effective thermal conductivity observed in helium II. 

Statistical mechanics provides physical significance to the virial coefficients (18). For the expansion in 1/ the term BjV arises because of interactions between pairs of molecules (eq. 11), the term C/ k, because of three-molecule interactions, etc. Because two-body interactions are much more common than higher order interactions, tmncated forms of the virial expansion are typically used. If no interactions existed, the virial coefficients would be 2ero and the virial expansion would reduce to the ideal gas law Z = 1). 

Chloride ions are comparatively weak nucleophiles and do not react with azoles. In general, there is also no interaction of halide ions with azolium compounds. 

A substance is in the ideal gas state when the volume of its molecules is a zero fraction of the total volume taken up by the substance and when the individual molecules are far enough apart from each other so that there is no interaction between them. Although this only occurs at infinite volume and zero pressure, in practice, ideal gas properties can be used for gases up to a pressure of two atmospheres with little loss of accuracy. Thermal properties of ideal gas mixtures may be obtained by mole-fraction averaging the pure component values. 

Figure 8.14). There are no interactions between the protein and the bases of he DNA in this middle region of the operator.

As indicated, an implicit assumption of the JKR theory is that there are no interactions outside the contact radius. More specifically, the energy arguments used in the development of the JKR theory do not allow specific locations of the adhesion forces to be determined except that they must be associated with the contact line where the two surfaces of the particle and substrate become joined. Adhesion-induced stresses act at the surface and not a result of action-at-a-distance interatomic forces. This results in a stress singularity at the circumference of the contact radius [41]. The validity of this assumption was first questioned by Derjaguin et al. [42], who proposed an alternative model of adhesion (commonly referred to as the DMT theory ). Needless to say, the predictions of the JKR and DMT models are vastly different, as discussed by Tabor [41]. 

This matrix must be diagonalized to obtain the largest eigenvalue and its eigenvector, which allows the partial coverages and the correlation functions to be obtained. This is trivial for no interactions (yi = yi = 3 12 = 1) and gives... 

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