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A large number of radiometric techniques have been developed for Pu analysis on tracer, biochemical, and environmental samples (119,120). In general the a-particles of most Pu isotopes are detected by gas-proportional, surface-barrier, or scintillation detectors. When the level of Pu is lower than 10 g/g sample, radiometric techniques must be enhanced by preliminary extraction of the Pu to concentrate the Pu and separate it from other radioisotopes (121,122). Alternatively, fission—fragment track detection can detect Pu at a level of 10 g/g sample or better (123). Chemical concentration of Pu from urine, neutron irradiation in a research reactor, followed by fission track detection, can achieve a sensitivity for Pu of better than 1 mBq/L (4 X 10 g/g sample) (124). 

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When microorganisms use an organic compound as a sole carbon source, their specific growth rate is a function of chemical concentration and can be described by the Monod kinetic equation. This equation includes a number of empirical constants that depend on the characteristics of the microbes, pH, temperature, and nutrients.54 Depending on the relationship between substrate concentration and rate of bacterial growth, the Monod equation can be reduced to forms in which the rate of degradation is zero order with substrate concentration and first order with cell concentration, or second order with concentration and cell concentration.144... 

There are, in fact, a number of solutions to the governing equations, but usually (see Chapter 12) only one with positive mole numbers and concentrations. Fortunately, the latter answer is of interest to all but the most abstract-thinking geochemist. The requirement that the iteration produce positive masses is known in chemical modeling as the non-negativity constraint. 

Gutmann acceptor numbers were determined in the "usual" way via the chemical shift variation of triphenylphosphine oxide by Osteryoung et al. [26]. While, again, the donor numbers were concentration- and composition-independent for basic melts, the acidic melts showed a strong composition dependence. Nonetheless, the acidity range was comparably small and was found around 100 (which compares to the acidity of trifluoroacetic acid). The donor number for basic melts was found to be 98, which was, of course. 

A typical chemical system is the oxidative decarboxylation of malonic acid catalyzed by cerium ions and bromine, the so-called Zhabotinsky reaction this reaction in a given domain leads to the evolution of sustained oscillations and chemical waves. Furthermore, these states have been observed in a number of enzyme systems. The simplest case is the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme peroxidase. The reaction kinetics display either steady states, bistability, or oscillations. A more complex system is the ubiquitous process of glycolysis catalyzed by a sequence of coordinated enzyme reactions. In a given domain the process readily exhibits continuous oscillations of chemical concentrations and fluxes, which can be recorded by spectroscopic and electrometric techniques. The source of the periodicity is the enzyme phosphofructokinase, which catalyzes the phosphorylation of fructose-6-phosphate by ATP, resulting in the formation of fructose-1,6 biphosphate and ADP. The overall activity of the octameric enzyme is described by an allosteric model with fructose-6-phosphate, ATP, and AMP as controlling ligands. 

A mole (mol) is Avogadro s number of particles (atoms, molecules, ions, or anything else). Molarity (M) is the number of moles of a substance per liter of solution. A liter (L) is the volume of a cube that is 10 cm on each edge. Because 10 cm = 0.1 m, 1 L = (0.1 m)3 = 10-3 m3. Chemical concentrations, denoted with square brackets, are usually expressed in moles per liter (M). Thus means the concentration of H+ ... 

Multiwavelength spectroscopy of biofluids provides several advantages over chemical assays that are not particular to Raman spectroscopy. First, all measurements are performed on the same sample volume, since multiple chemicals concentrations can be computed from a single spectrum. There is typically just one optical sensor unit or cartridge required. In multi-chemical assays, the sample must be separated into subvolumes that are sent to different single-chemical sensor units. This increases the volume of sample needed, the complexity of the sample s path through the analyzer, and the number of sensor units needed. 

Using the so-called fixed-ratio or ray design, the mixture of interest is analyzed at a constant concentration ratio while the total concentration of the mixture is systematically varied. Hence, a concentration-response curve (a ray in the mixture response surface see Section 4.5.2) of the mixture is recorded, which can then be analyzed just as the concentration-response curve of a single chemical. A comparison with the concentration-response curves of the individual components allows a comparison with both CA and IA predictions. For this purpose k(n + 1) test groups are needed, where n = number of mixture components and k = number of concentrations per concentration-response curve. For the fixed-ratio design the use of D-optimal designs has been proposed as an efficient approach (Coffey et al. 2005). For a fixed sample size, the D-optimal design provides a criterion to select the experimental concentrations and number of subjects per concentration level that... 

Fig- 33.14. Chemical composition of five commercial biomass feedstocks showing the variance in number and concentration of constituents. 

Do not use italic type for the chemical concentration unit M (molar, moles per cubic decimeter, moles per liter) or the unit N (normal). Use italic type for the unit m (molal, moles per kilogram). Use a space between the number and these abbreviations, that is, on each side of these abbreviations. 

There exist a large number of phenomenological laws for example, Fick s law relates to the flow of a substance and its concentration gradient, and the mass action law explores the reaction rate and chemical concentrations or affinities. When two or more of these phenomena occur simultaneously in a system, they may couple and induce new effects, such as facilitated and active transport in biological systems. In active transport, a substrate can flow against the direction imposed by its thermodynamic force. Without the coupling, such uphill transport would be in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. Therefore, dissipation due to either diffusion or chemical reaction can be negative only if these two processes couple and produce a positive total entropy production. 

The phenomenon of very diluted solutions is well known in radiochemistry. Carrier-free radioactive isotopes could be mentioned as an example. The term denotes a radioisotope of an element in pure form, that is, essentially undiluted, with a stable isotope. The chemical concentration of these radioisotopes is usually very low. For example, 1 kBq radioactivity (applied typically in a tracer experiment) is equivalent to cca. 2 10 12 mol in the case of 137Cs or 90Sr isotopes. In the case of such low concentrations, no chemical system can be considered homogeneous because all surfaces, the wall of the laboratory vessels, or any contaminants in the solution (such as air bubbles, small particles, great molecules, etc.) can initiate interfacial processes and the subsequent formation of heterogeneous phases (adsorption, colloid formation, precipitation, etc.). This is the result of the simple fact that the number of molecules on the surfaces is more than, or at least similar to, the number of particles in the solution. Even in a solution containing... 

This distribution law applies only to the distribution of a definite chemical species, as does Henry s law. The distribution constant is not a true thermodynamic equilibrium constant, since it involves concentrations rather than activities. Thus it may vary slightly with the concentration of the solute (particularly because of the relatively high concentration of I2 in the CCI4 phase) it is therefore advantageous to determine 1 at a number of concentrations. It can be determined directly by titration of both phases with standard thiosulfate solution when I2 is distributed between CCI4 and pure water. Once k is known, (I2) in an aqueous phase containing I3 can be obtained by means of a titration of the I2 in a CCI4 layer that has been equilibrated with this phase. The use of a distribution constant in this manner depends upon the assumption that its value is unaffected by the presence of ions in the aqueous phase. 

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