Other Substances

In principle, the added risk approach could be applied (in the European Union and Canada) to other substances, for example, natural steroidal estrogens from wildlife, 

FIGURE 4.2 Summary of the added risk approach for dealing with background concentrations of metals. 

Large volume of blue bile, high values of acid phosphatase - severe depletion in progress. 

Small volume of yellow bile, low value of acid phosphatase, quantity of muscle protein still reduced - fish has been severely starved but has been recovering for some time. 

Since the liver changes markedly in size according to its lipid content, the most useful measure is the quantity of lipid in the whole liver, rather than the concentration in a piece of the organ. Where much lipid is stored, the liver is large and creamy in appearance, while the liver of a starved fish is small and red. It must be emphasized that this particular scheme applies only to nonfatty fish, which store virtually all their lipid reserves in their livers. Fatty fish will behave somewhat differently, although die general principles are the same. 

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It is manufactured by heating dicyandiamide, H2N C(NH) NH CN, either alone or in the presence of ammonia or other alkalis, in various organic solvents. Melamine is an important material in the plastics industry. Condensed with melhanal and other substances it gives thermosetting resins that are remarkably stable to heat and light. U.S. production 1980 80 000 tonnes. 

H02C(CH2)2C02H. Colourless prisms m.p. 182 C, b.p. 235°C. Occurs in amber, algae, lichens, sugar cane, beets and other plants, and is formed during the fermentation of sugar, tartrates, malates and other substances by a variety of yeasts, moulds and bacteria. Manufactured by the catalytic reduction of maleic acid or by heating 1,2-dicyanoethane with acids or alkalis. Forms an anhydride when heated at 235°C. Forms both acid and neutral salts and esters. Used in the manufacture of succinic anhydride and of polyesters with polyols. 

Because of its toxicity, it is often necessary to be able to detect arsenic when present only in small amounts in other substances. 

The third method is of limited application and is used only in special cases, The second is the most accurate and rapid method, and is of considerable technical importance. The chemical method (described below), although less accurate than the polarimetric method, is of great value for the estimation of sugars in biological fluids. In fact, for such purposes, it is often to be preferred to the polarimetric method owing to the probable presence of other substances having high optical rotations. 

Enzyme action is frequently accelerated or retarded by the presence of other substances both organic and inorganic. Such substances have been divided into three categories (a) co-enzymes, without which certain enzymes are unable to function (i) activators, and (c) inhibitors. 

Other substances can activate hydrogen peroxide, for example, ferrous iron (p 352)- The products however are usually less well defined and different from those obtained when using peroxidase. 

Sodium metal should be handled with great care. It cannot be maintained in an inert atmosphere and contact with water and other substances with which sodium reacts should be avoided. 

Many of the most interesting and useful reactions of aldehydes and ketones involve trans formation of the initial product of nucleophilic addition to some other substance under the reaction conditions An example is the reaction of aldehydes with alcohols under con ditions of acid catalysis The expected product of nucleophilic addition of the alcohol to the carbonyl group is called a hemiacetal The product actually isolated however cor responds to reaction of one mole of the aldehyde with two moles of alcohol to give gem mal diethers known as acetals... 

Colonies of bacteria that live in then digestive tract consume cellulose and in the process convert it to other substances that the animal can digest... 

Achiral (Section 7 1) Opposite of chiral An achiral object is supenmposable on its mirror image Acid According to the Arrhenius definition (Section 1 12) a substance that ionizes in water to produce protons Accord mg to the Br0nsted-Lowry definition (Section 1 13) a sub stance that donates a proton to some other substance According to the Lewis definition (Section 1 17) an electron pair acceptor... 

Various other substances have also been used in tests. Robens, for example, with glass spheres 20 to 60 pm in diameter, obtained a BET area (taking = 16-2 A ) which was only 5 per cent higher than the... 

At normal pressures (around atmospheric) and up to about 250°C (approaching the limit of thermal stability for most organic compounds), a volatile substance can be defined as one that can be vaporized by heat between ambient temperature (10 to 30°C) and 200 to 250°C. All other substances are nonvolatile. 

Since feeds contain other substances than those required by the animals of interest, studies have also been conducted on antinutritional factors in feedstuffs and on the use of additives. Certain feed ingredients contain chemicals that retard growth or may actually be toxic. Examples are gossypol in cottonseed meal and trypsin inhibitor in soybean meal. Restriction on the amount of the feedstuffs used is one way to avoid problems. In some cases, as is tme of trypsin inhibitor, proper processing can destroy the antinutritional factor. In this case, heating of soybean meal is effective. 

Polymer-based rocket propellants are generally referred to as composite propellants, and often identified by the elastomer used, eg, urethane propellants or carboxy- (CTPB) or hydroxy- (HTPB) terrninated polybutadiene propellants. The cross-linked polymers act as a viscoelastic matrix to provide mechanical strength, and as a fuel to react with the oxidizers present. Ammonium perchlorate and ammonium nitrate are the most common oxidizers used nitramines such as HMX or RDX may be added to react with the fuels and increase the impulse produced. Many other substances may be added including metallic fuels, plasticizers, stabilizers, catalysts, ballistic modifiers, and bonding agents. Typical components are Hsted in Table 1. 

Enclosed agitated filters are useful when volatile solvents are in use or when the solvent gives off toxic vapor or fume. Another significant advantage is that their operation does not require any manual labor. Control can be manual or automatic, usually by timers or by specific measurements of the product. Most filters are made of mild steel, with the exposed surfaces protected by lead, tile, mbber lining, or by coating or spraying with other substances as necessary. Filtration areas up to 10 m are available and the maximum cake thickness is 1 m. Apphcations are mainly in the chemical industry for the recovery of solvents. 

A flavor contributory item is an additive that when smelled and/or tasted helps to create, enhance, or potentiate the named flavor. It is not characteristic of the flavor, but essential in that it acts with other substances to produce a definite character. 

The surface of PTFE articles is sHppery and smooth. Liquids with surface tensions below 18 mN/m(=dyn/cm) are spread completely on the PTFE surface hence, solutions of various perfluorocarbon acids in water wet the polymer (78). Treatment with alkafl metals promotes the adhesion between PTFE and other substances (79) but increases the coefficient of friction (80). 

Other Substances. Driving under the influence of alcohol cases are compHcated because people sometimes consume alcohol with other substances (11—13). The most common iUicit substances taken with alcohol are marijuana and cocaine (see Table 1) (14). In combination with alcohol, some dmgs have an additive effect. When a blood or urine alcohol sample is tested for alcohol and the result is well below the legal concentration threshold yet the test results are not consistent with the arresting officers observation that the subject was stuporous, further toxicological tests for the possible presence of dmgs are indicated. 

Mixtures of glycerol with other substances are often named as if they were derivatives of glycerol eg, boroglycetides (also called glyceryl borates) are mixtures of boric acid and glycerol. Derivatives, such as acetals, ketals, chlorohydrins, and ethers, can be prepared but are not made commercially, with the exception of polyglycerols. 

The physical properties of argon, krypton, and xenon are frequendy selected as standard substances to which the properties of other substances are compared. Examples are the dipole moments, nonspherical shapes, quantum mechanical effects, etc. The principle of corresponding states asserts that the reduced properties of all substances are similar. The reduced properties are dimensionless ratios such as the ratio of a material s temperature to its critical... 

Examples of the hydroquinone inclusion compounds (91,93) are those formed with HCl, H2S, SO2, CH OH, HCOOH, CH CN (but not with C2H 0H, CH COOH or any other nitrile), benzene, thiophene, CH, noble gases, and other substances that can fit and remain inside the 0.4 nm cavities of the host crystals. That is, clathration of hydroquinone is essentially physical in nature, not chemical. A less than stoichiometric ratio of the guest may result, indicating that not all void spaces are occupied during formation of the framework. Hydroquinone clathrates are very stable at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. Thermodynamic studies suggest them to be entropic in nature (88). 

Freedom from Interferenees. To avoid spurious results it is necessary that other substances present in the air being sampled do not bias the... 

Dicalcium hexakiscyanoferrate [13821 -08 ] Ca2[Fe(CN)g], is formed as yellow crystals by reaction of Hquid or gaseous HCN with iron(II) chloride in water containing Ca(OH)2 or CaCO and having pH > 8. It is used to prevent caking of other substance and serves as a useful starting material in the preparation of other [Fe(CN)g] salts. Examples of mixed salts include calcium dicesium hexakiscyanoferrate [15415-35-7] CaCs2[Fe(CN)g], and calcium dipotassium hexakiscyanoferrate [20219-00-5] CaK2[Fe(CN)g]. 

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